"I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another."

-- Lord Byron

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“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.
“The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.”
“We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.”
“The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.”
“Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.”
“How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?”
“Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.”

Source : Derek Bok (2009). “Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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