Pierre Trudeau Quotes
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
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You mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
