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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
"Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw."
"The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it."
"The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him."
"Why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much- Mark Twain ...that's why ..."
"Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate."
"How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?"
"Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.''And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache."
"It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today."
"All continuous suffering, is self inflicted."
"Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep."
"There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander."
"Children are being killed, because some 'adults' think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless.Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual.Something is amiss here.If adults don't truly grow up, then their young may never get the chance."
"It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway."
"I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest."
"Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience."
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
"They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you."
"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
"Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void."
"Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were."
"My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada."
"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
"The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities."
"And all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge."
"We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."
"Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth."
"What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions."
"Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day."
"Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?"
"We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue."
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