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“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.”
Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
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“Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.”
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“Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.”
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“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.”
Source : Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.
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“We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.”
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“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.”
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“I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.”
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“Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.”
Source : "Virginia Johnson obituary" by Suzie Hayman, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.