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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Trudeau
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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.
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I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.
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I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
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We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.
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I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an all Canadian boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
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I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
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If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.
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