Jean Drapeau quotes
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“I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.”
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“What the masses want are monuments.”
-- Jean DrapeauSource : "We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov". "West Island Gazette", December 3, 2011.
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“The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.”
-- Jean DrapeauSource : "Why Chicago didn't want the Olympics" by Edward McClelland, www.salon.com. October 2, 2009.
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“Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.”
-- Jean DrapeauSource : "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.
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“The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.”
-- Jean Drapeau
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“Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.”
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“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”
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“Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin”
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“No moral system can rest solely on authority.”
Source : Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction
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“Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.”
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