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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies."
"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
"Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives."
"I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are."
"We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction."
"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms."
"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street."
"All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of."
"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
"But marriage is forever.'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you."
"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."
"Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - until we have the perspective of years.In time, years, dust settles.In memory, ages, God emerges."
"You weren't lost. You were exploring. There's a difference."
"There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way."
"Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality."
"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
"We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
"Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it."
"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
"Hey. Shane's hip nudged her chair, and he bent over, putting his mouth very close to her ear."What are you doing?"Thinking."Stop."Stop thinking?"You're doing way too much of it. It'll make you go blind.She laughed and turned her face toward his. "I think you're thinking of something else."
"On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur."
"One can always debate questions back and forth."
"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
"I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette."
"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."
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