"I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years."

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Source : Source: www.cbc.ca

Joseph Boyden

#Believe Quotes #Important Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.”
“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”
“You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.31, Pan Macmillan
“I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.”
“[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.”
“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”
“The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like â€œWhat is the significance in the world? How might this change things?”
“Dead bodies are calm and silentâ€”perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.”

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