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“The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.”
Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
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“Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.”
Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.112
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“When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.”
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“We are spirits clad in veils.”
Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch, “Gnosis”
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“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”
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“One of the things that's really exciting from my perspective is that Canada is one of the major spacefaring nations. The list of our achievements is profound and significant, and it's not just in robotics, it's also in the life-sciences research experiments that take place on board and other space-science experiments. I'd love to see Canada go from being a major spacefaring nation in low-Earth-orbit missions to those beyond, making sure we're part of those missions to Mars - not just from a technology perspective, but sending humans into beyond-Earth orbit.”
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“There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.”
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“I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.”
