Adventure Quote by Robert MacNeil

“Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”

Robert MacNeil

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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

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Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

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I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than…

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I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it,…

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“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to…

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Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling…

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Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova…

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“He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just…

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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York…

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Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

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“Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.”

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