One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don't have to be one thing. That's a European idea. There's multiple personalities, multiple loyalties. You can be a Winnipegger, a Manitoban, a Westerner.
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.
I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
