Heywood Jablome
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: JOTD: Canada's place on the World Menu... |
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Or, Quote of the Day as it happens:
"In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations -- it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."
--Stuart Keate
  
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"Those countries which lag behind in industry, in the application of mechanics and technical chemistry, in the careful selection and utilization of natural products, where the respect for such activities does not permeate all classes of society, will unfailingly decline in prosperity. They will sink faster when neighbor states, with an energetic exchange between science and industry, go forward with renewed vitality."
-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
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timbo
Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Posts: 82
Location: Brampton, Ontario
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: 1961 address to the Canadian Parliament |
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature so has joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us."
--John F. Kennedy
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