Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly … - Vincent Massey

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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

Vincent Massey

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

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Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

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Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

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The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

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It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?

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It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

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