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“ It's going to be very, very tough to replace you as a Governor General. Or to pay off your MasterCard. ”
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“ Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question… ”
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman- Copy
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- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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