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 The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.  If ever Confederation fails, it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found. I tried to treat them like me, and some of them weren't. I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles. I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time. The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood. It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually. This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ." - Bible Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face. - Boethius 
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