Elizabeth May Quotes
Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
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Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
