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“Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.”
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“In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.”
Source : "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.
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“Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.”
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“Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.”
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“I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.”
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“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.”
Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford”
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“Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.”
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“Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.”
Source : "My Journey With Farrah" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.