"There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States."

-- Preston Manning

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“I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.”
“Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!”
“If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.”
“I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.”
“The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”

Source : "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20
“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”
“There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.”
“The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.”

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