105 Quotes About Canadians
- Author Mordecai Richler
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The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.
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- Author Tanya Huff
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It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.
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- Author Chris Mentillo
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I Do Not Like Canadians, I Love Them.
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- Author John Webster Grant
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The other major hurdle was that the two churches in the upper provinces had between them no less than four theological colleges, each with partisans who argued that in the interests of economy at least one of the others ought to be closed. This was passed, in a typically Canadian spirit of compromise, by allowing all four to remain open.
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- Author Jess Molly Brown
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Vince is about to open the house door when it flies open and a huge black amplifier almost wipes both Paeng and him out.“Hey, hey! Sorry! S'cuse us!” Vince yelps, backpedalling and pulling Paeng with him.Paeng chuckles. “Somebody tries to flatten us, and you apologize to him.” Vince shrugs and grins. “How Canadian of me.
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- Author Will Ferguson
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We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we barely notice it, and one that we claim by virtue of our citizenship. But it is also worth remembering that people -- in the words of Bulgarian-born Canadian philanthropist Ignat Kaneff -- 'crawl across minefields to get here.
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- Author Alex Berenson
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Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.
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- Author Eric Bernotas
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The Canadians are phenomenal sliders. They have a lot of experience. They took to this track very well. They deserve a lot of credit.
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- Author Jason Bay
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To win this in a year (2005) when so many Canadians had good seasons is amazing. I'd love to win a World Series one day, but, on a personal level, it's very gratifying to recognized by your country.
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