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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Pierre Trudeau

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Pierre Trudeau
Age: 80 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 18
Died: 2000
Died: September 28
Diarist
Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
Judge
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up
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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.
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Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.
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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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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.
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