Greying_Geezer's Quotes

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It’s education [Canada’s residential school system] that got us into this mess, and it’s education that will get us out.

Murray Sinclair  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

It’s education [Canada’s residential school system] that got us into this mess, and it’s education that will get us out.

Murray Sinclair  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

To know the truth, you first have to speak the truth.

Murray Sinclair  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

Mr. Poilievre doesn’t get an election just because he has a slogan that rhymes. [referring to Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre’s slogan “Axe the taxe”]

Elizabeth Evans May  Famous Quote

added 3 months ago

I always think it’s a mark of a sophisticated democracy if, having invented a watchdog, you don’t take its teeth out and muzzle it the minute it starts to bark.

Barbara Young  Famous Quote

added 6 months ago

I am not denying saying anything I did not say.

Brian Mulroney  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Addison Walker  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Catherine Deneuve  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

There was an academic survey about a decade ago that found viewers who watch no news were better informed than those who watched Fox News. This might be hilarious if Fox News wasn't also the most watched cable network in America. Then it's terrifying.

Vinay Menon  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say. (addressing fellow candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in a the 2nd GOP primary debate)

Nikki Haley  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

In the field of civil engineering, if we don’t make an impact on the world, there won’t be a world to worry about.

Luna Lu  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose...until you lose.

John McEnroe  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

Tommy Douglas  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Let’s not forget that the ultimate goal of Medicare must be to keep people well rather than just patching them up when they get sick.

Tommy Douglas  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Tommy Douglas  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

Saint Augustine  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

My history doesn’t have to be my destiny.

Jully Black  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.

Ben Franklin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

Martin Cooper  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

William Stanley Merwin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

Tommy Douglas  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us.

Tommy Douglas  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)

Lt. Col. Melanie Lake  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

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