"People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true."

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Joseph Boyden

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“Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
“The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.”
“We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.”
“Grammar Checker â€“ A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who donâ€™t.”
“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.”

Source : Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
“every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.”

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