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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
"I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications."
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
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