"There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them."

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Source : Canadian Pacific Railway Company, William Cornelius Van Horne “Van Horne Letter Book: Dec. 3rd, 1884-Feb. 3rd, 1885”

William Cornelius Van Horne

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“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
“A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”
“If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War”
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
“Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.”

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“I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.”
“Without passion, there is no genius.”

Source : Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson (1871). “The history of Rome”, p.539
“When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.”

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