"I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself."

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Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.

Vincent Massey

#Important Quotes #Might Quotes #Canada Quotes

“One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.”
“Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.”
“Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...”
“I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.”
“Temerity is not always successful.”
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

Source : "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.
“The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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