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“I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.”
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“study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.”
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“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”
Source : Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
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“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
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“I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.”
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“Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.”
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“Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.”
Source : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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“Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.”
Source : "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.