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"Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up." »Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
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"It is as queen of canada that I am here. Queen of canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains." »Elizabeth II
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"canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all canada belongs to them." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase" »Miguel de Cervantes
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"I don't even know what street canada is on." »Al Capone
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"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing." »Aesop
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"Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely." »Chinese Proverb
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"canada: A few acres of snow." »Voltaire
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"canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women." »Richard Benner
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"The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose." »Paul Tsongas
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"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination." »Irving Layton
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States." »J. Bartlett Brebner
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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing." »Jean Baptiste Colbert
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"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to canada." » Lorne Bloch
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"Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan
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"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of canada." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." »Pierre Trudeau
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"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village." »Morrow Mayo
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