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I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

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
Lawyer
Memoirist
Politician
Montreal
Quebec
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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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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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.
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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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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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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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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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For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
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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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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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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.
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I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.
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Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
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