"On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America."

-- David Suzuki

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“This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.”

Source : Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.18, Read Books Ltd
“I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality”
“I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.”
“Iâ€™d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. Iâ€™m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.”
“Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW”
“Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.”
“English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it”
“Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.”

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