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• You know, elections are not won with prayers.

  Maurice Duplessis

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• Education is like alcohol; some people can’t take it.

  Maurice Duplessis

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• Let us remain attached to the land… In the country, there are stability, common sense and strong religious convictions.

  Maurice Duplessis

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• Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

  Sergei Diaghilev

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• One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details.

  Oscar Wilde

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• Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

  Peter Damian

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• History of science played a very important role for me. Before I knew well how to do an experiment, I knew why Joliot has missed the neutron, why his wife missed the fission, why they succeeded in having artificial radioactivity, and even why they almost missed the other things, by doing very nice experiments, but didn’t come to the conclusion. That is science. Science is doubt, is research. It is not something which is – and that is the danger of teaching which is too academic and which the people explain you it is like the logic thing that comes out of the computer, which is not true. You have intuition, you have passion.

  Georges Charpak

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• If we want something, we must take care of education.

  Georges Charpak

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• Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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• A hunter-gatherer familly shares what it has, whether that is information or food. To give to others is to be able to receive from others. Knowledge and food are stored, as it were, by being shared.

  Hugh Brody

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• The business environment of the state is not performing anywhere near where it should.

  Thomas Bracken

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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

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• I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever and I was.

  Robert Boothby

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• No one who had any sense ever liked school.

  Robert Boothby

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• Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!

  Valentine Blacker

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• Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

  Claude Bissell

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• Innovation needs to be encouraged so that land managers can seize opportunities related to climate change mitigation and adoption.

  Margaret Beckett

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• It is clear that for China and India the priority is development.

  Margaret Beckett

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• We believe we can reach the 20% target with support from all sections of the economy and society.

  Margaret Beckett

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• There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems ourselves.

  Margaret Beckett

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