Mitacs Canada Quotes & Sayings

The belief that there is a difference between good and bad, meaningful and meaningless, profound and vapid, exciting and banal - this belief was once fundamental to musical education. But it offends against political correctness. Today there is only my taste and yours. The suggestion that my taste is better than yours is elitist, an offence against equality. But unless we teach children to judge, to discriminate, to recognise the difference between music of lasting value and mere ephemera, we give up on the task of education. Judgment is the precondition of true enjoyment, and the prelude to understanding art in all its forms. — Roger Scruton

Perhaps, you haven't reached the other side yet, because it's just too scary. — Charles F. Glassman

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar. — Thomas Jefferson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it. — Robby Benson

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head. — Soichiro Honda

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. — Golda Meir

All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't. — Holly Black