"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business."

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Source : Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1890). “Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform: Collection of the Principal Speeches Made in Parliament Or Before the People, by the Honorable Wilfrid Laurier ... Member for Quebec-East in the Commons, Since His Entry Into Active Politics in 1871”, Turcotte & Ménard

Wilfrid Laurier

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“Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'”
“Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.”
“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.”
“I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.”
“One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.”
“Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.”
“A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.”

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