My country is not a country, it is winter.

Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver.

Gilles Vigneault

Mon Pays

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Topic

Canada

Speaker

Gilles Vigneault

Source

Mon Pays

Medium

Song

Language

French

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Canada

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Citation

"Mon Pays [My Country]." La Neige a Fondu sur la Manicouagan [The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan]. Directed by Arthur Lamothe, composed by Gilles Vigneault, National Film Board of Canada, 1965.

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Another quote from the 1960s

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Topic
Discovery Originality Creativity
Speaker
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

Another quote originally in French

A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.

Pierre Corneille

Surena

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Topic
Favors
Speaker
Orode

Author

Pierre Corneille
Source
Surena
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Language
French
Time
1674 1670s 17th century
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Citation

Corneille, Pierre. Surena. 1674, act 3, sc. 2.