"But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52, 1989.

William Pfaff

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“Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.”
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
“His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast
“The strongest climbers arenâ€™t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. Thatâ€™s all.”
“And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.”
“Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.”
“The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.”

Source : Lisa Lutz, David Hayward (2011). “Heads You Lose”, p.21, Penguin
“I never get bored, because thereâ€™s always different puzzles, Iâ€™m wearing different clothes, thereâ€™s different contestants, thereâ€™s different prizes.”

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