John Turner Quotes
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
Quotes to Explore
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
