"We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions."

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Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.

Vincent Massey

#Understanding Quotes #Unity Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. â€”Jenna Richards”
“It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'”
“I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.”
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”

Source : Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950
“Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.”
“It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.”
“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

Source : Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1447, Delphi Classics

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