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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol."
"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
"Real peace goes beyond explanation."
"You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough."
"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
"You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist."
"I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier."
"That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due."
"You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it."
"Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?"
"The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?"
"Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg."
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
"Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to."
"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor."
"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places."
"No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had."
"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."
"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
"When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver's seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals."
"Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture."
"I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie."
"It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority."
"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do."
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