"I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian."

-- Will Ferguson

#Humorous Quotes #Home Quotes #Political Quotes

“It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.”
“I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.”
“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”

Source : R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK
“Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.”
“That's usuÐ°llÑƒ hÐ¾w thÐµÑƒ start, thÐµ young Ð¾nÐµs. Meaningless waffle.”
“Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling”
“A just system must generate its own support.”
“There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.106, Broadview Press

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