#vinci

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#canada #cooperation #doing #forces #government

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commissioners #convictions #governments #happened #marriage

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#case #certain #claim #convincingly #distinctive

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#great #great people #growing #growing up #had

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#adequate #although #capitals #darfur #each

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution. ↗

— Laurence Tribe

#constitution #convincing #enough #i #i believe

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#become #becoming #code #even #found

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #give #inexorable #invincible #oppression

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#despair #hope #make #possible #radical