"Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens."

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Source : "Problems of Journalism". Book by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1966.

Pierre Trudeau

#Goes On Quotes #Bilingualism Quotes #Six Quotes

“Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses”
“The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.”
“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
“Life is about the moments: Don't wait for them, create them!”
“We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.”
“Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.”

Source : "The Horror" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.
“Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.”

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