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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted … you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. – Alanis Obomsawin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves. – Michel Duplain Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens. – Oliver Sacks Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Of course, the most rewarding part is the ‘Aha’ moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new – the feeling of being on top of a hill and having a clear view. But most of the time, doing mathematics for me is like being on a long hike with no trail and no end in sight. – Maryam Mirzakhani Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The means we use to achieve our objectives in this world define the type of world we are going to live in. (speaking in deliberations prior to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) – Senator Charles H. Percy Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
I am convinced that creative minds in the name of greed can concoct schemes faster than we can get legislation against them. – Senator Charles H. Percy Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder. – James Bridwell Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Maryam Mirzakhani Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Ahmed Kathrada Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Mildred Dresselhaus Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,.... – John Stuart Mill Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
It's 2015. [In response to being questioned on why he implemented gender equality in his cabinet.] – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
I know I will make mistakes, but I hope it will be said of me when I give up the highest honour that you can confer on any man—He wasn't always right; sometimes he was on the wrong side, but never on the side of wrong. – John George Diefenbaker Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
Commenting to reporters regarding polls—I’ve always been fond of dogs, and they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles. – John George Diefenbaker Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever. – Augusta Stowe-Gullen Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. – Anthony Neil Wedgewood "Tony" Benn Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. – Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. – Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
The function of a financial system is to channel money from people who have it but want to save it to people who don't have it but want to spend it. ... In Ireland, as in most European countries, the banking system is the most important conduit for channelling money from savers to investors. – Dan O'Brien Famous Quote	added 11 years ago

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