Pierre Berton quotes
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“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.”
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“The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.”
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“My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.”
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“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”
-- Pierre BertonSource : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
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“Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.”
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“I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.”
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“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”
-- Pierre Berton
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Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press
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Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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“Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.”
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“It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.”
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Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso
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Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press
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