"As to the first, I do not know……" — Lester B. Pearson
"As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests."
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31 Quotes by Lester B. Pearson
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in…
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of…
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the…
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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of…
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have…
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As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of…
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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for…
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the…
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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
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