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But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#belonged #country #emotionally #enormously #every

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

I never wanted to be a pundit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#never #wanted

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#brothers #go #homes #istanbul #japan

Love's a disease. But curable. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#disease #love

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#found #knew #man #measure #never

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#except #make #mint #money #nothing

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#enjoy #even #mind #perhaps #person