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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
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Former Prime Minister Of Canada
Journalist
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Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.
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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
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I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
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The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.
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Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
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As against the invisible hand of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
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The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.
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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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I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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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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Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.
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The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms.
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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