"America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Joseph Boyden

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Two Quotes

“If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.”
“In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!”

Source : "A Case of Conscience". Book by James Blish, Chapter 13 (p. 158), 1958.
“Everybody lives an epic.”
“Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.”
“Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.”
“Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.”
“I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.”
“Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.”

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