"Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service."

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Paul Martin

#Country Quotes #Pride Quotes #Our Veterans Quotes

“Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run”
“All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.”
“My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.”
“Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.”
“This life isn't bad for a first draft.”
“in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company
“I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.”
“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan

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