"The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees."

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Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

June Callwood

#Humorous Quotes #Fall Quotes #Eagles Quotes

“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”
“I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.”
“Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.”
“I have the talent and the tools to win.”
“How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself”, p.204
“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”
“The only time I use women in films is when they're naked or dead.”

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