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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
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
Judge
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Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings you have a corpse.
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I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.
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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
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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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I must say that Give Peace a Chance has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
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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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I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.
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I think that the history of the past hundred years has shown us that, by and large, the one linguistic group to whom separatism is being preached is not moved by the arguments which are used.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
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People are more interested in ideas than dress.
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The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
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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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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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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
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When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
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