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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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