Adrienne Clarkson quotes
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“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”
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“Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.”
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“When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you”
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“Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.”
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“To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.”
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“No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.”
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“As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.”
-- Adrienne Clarkson
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“You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.”
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Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
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“Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!”
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“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
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“Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff”
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Source : Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books
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