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Stephen Leacock

"How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone."

Source : Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

Stephen Leacock

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“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
“It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart”

Source : Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.42, Red Wheel/Weiser
“After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.”
“Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.”
“I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.”
“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”
“Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.”
“As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation, but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.”

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