Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Wilfrid Laurier

• Judge
• Liberty
• Act
• Canada
• Interfere
• Reserve
• Pleases

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• My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.

  

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• I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

  

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• Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.

  

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• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

  Nastia Liukin
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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

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• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

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• The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
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• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

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• I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

  

  Garry Shandling
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• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

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• There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  

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• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

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• It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

  

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• It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have 10 Guitars, which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Song
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  • 10 Guitars

• I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Judge
  • Liberty
  • Act