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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canada #elliott #last #leader #pierre

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. ↗

— Jack Layton

#care #continue #forward #health #health care

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. ↗

— Jack Layton

#cancer #defeat #discouraged #gone #had

Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer. ↗

— Jack Layton

#been #better #cherish #determined #disease

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use. ↗

— Edward Lazear

#additional #basically #cut #gasoline #stimulates

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#any #bones #ever #funny #i

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#manifold #misery #wretchedness

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#loss #time #youth #age

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#bother #doing #every #good #good soldier