Lester B. Pearson Quotes

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Lester B. Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972

Topics

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Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

John Joly

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

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You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Amor Towles

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A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.

Steve Guttenberg

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I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house where I can write and I like to keep moving around. The moment I find myself falling into a necessary routine, I change it. I'd rather not accumulate superstitions.

Stephen Dobyns

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The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.

Stanley Marcus

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To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Spiro T. Agnew

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I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

Tony Danza

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Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.

Robin DiAngelo

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The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.

Martin O'Malley

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One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Mike Birbiglia

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