"A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values."

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Source : "Memoirs" by Pierre Trudeau, (Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366), 1993.

Pierre Trudeau

#Country Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Pyramids Quotes

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
“There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.”
“Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.”
“I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.”
“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.”
“Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.”
“I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.”
“I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.”

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