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“We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.”
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“The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the rest of us didn't know anything about her. It's just so typical of Canadians that we know Rosa Parks, in that "bad country to the south of us" - they needed this lovely, courageous woman to sit down in the front of the bus - but we wouldn't know ours, because of course we "don't have racism in Canada."”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.”
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“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”
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“I'm more of the sneaker-wearing, computer geek type.”
Source : "Shenanigans: get to know Rep.Jared Polis". Interview by Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. December 01, 2009. 
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“Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!”
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“Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.”
Source : "The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the Nation" by Ernest Gellner,
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“I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.”
