Adrienne Clarkson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
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Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
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When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you
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Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
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No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
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As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.
-- Adrienne Clarkson
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
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You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
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Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff
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We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Cars for me are like a piece of art.
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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
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