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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Sir Francis Bacon

A substantial amount of money was spent on Site 41. 41 is now in the hands of the province, the Ministry of the Environment and waiting for direction from there.

Sandra Cooper

Right now what's on the table that's being proposed are changes which are frankly going to change the fundamental nature of our health-care system in this province.

Gil Mcgowan

Education is the cornerstone of a society, ... The most important investment we can make collectively and individually is in education. It amounts to an investment in the development of the province.

Bernard Lord

Given the urgency of the challenges that face the province, and the amazing opportunities that lie before us, the impact of a two-year leadership race must seriously be considered.

Lyle Oberg

We're operating snowplows in St. John's 24 hours a day. I don't why we couldn't do that on the main highway in our province.

Gerry Reid

The idea that a province that doesn't have criminal jurisdiction could send someone to jail for that length of time is ridiculous.

Brian Greenspan

I couldn't stop crying. It's so big for him, for the team, for the curling club, for the province of Newfoundland and for the sport of curling and for Canada. It's huge. It's so important for the growth of the sport.

Shelley Nichols

We dream of a province where the values of co-operation and caring, optimism and hope are the foundation of an unbreakable social fabric.

Lorne Calvert

The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.

Jinny Sims

These laws are applicable anywhere in the province.

Michael Baker

The people of the province want the government to be focused on energy. It is something that is very troubling to many, many Nova Scotians, and we are going to focus on energy.

John Hamm

When you play certain teams from your own province, there might be a little more determination than when you play others.

Jill Officer

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

For example, what it represents is for a territory like Nunavut, they would get about eight times as much in those transfers as the highest province would, P.E.I.,

Ken Dryden

Ontario college students are frustrated and furious this evening that their post-secondary education is being disrupted by a province-wide faculty strike.

Matt Jackson

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly

I think the expectations of the citizens of the province have changed, and it's no different for teachers.

Kevin Foley

In the past two months, eight multi-national force soldiers and six coalition members have been killed by terrorists in Basra province, ... This terrorism must be stopped.

John Lorimer

The main teams are the Eastern Province under-20 select and the Malawi Central Region Select.

Mwansa Mbulakulima

We were going against the best 1-2 punch in guards in the province.

Shawn Gray

Rick works tremendously hard to accommodate media across the province and it is gratifying to see him recognized.

Kelly Mccrimmon

What it means is the most important element in all this is going to be organizational effort on the part of all the parties in each of the ridings across the province.

Mark Marissen

It does affect all the districts in the province.

Frances Kelly

The province has created a ticking download that will cost Ontario property taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over time.

Roger Anderson

There is no problem in this province. We don't have a result yet we will get it later today and give it tomorrow.

Abdul Hussein Hindawi

Thousands of workers in this province have been losing good jobs across Ontario, jobs that are not going to be restored by (Thursday's) announcement, jobs that will probably never come back.

Peter Kormos

Everybody took the money, from the income tax departments representing the province and the federal government.

Marc Emery

It is a fact unfortunately that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province.

Prince Nayef

It's no secret that we have population pressures in all of our correctional facilities across the province.

Andy Weiler

I'm happy (the decision process is over). I don't have to move to another city or province so that's cool.

Bashir Levingston

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings.

Lincoln Steffens

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

Ferdinand E. Marcos

The legislation will not improve the safety of the residents of Ontario and will not reduce the number of dog bite incidents in this province. It will, however, force the owners of friendly, happy dogs who have never bitten anyone to leash them and muzzle them without any reason.

Clayton Ruby

Simply put, this model requires the candidates to do exactly what the leader of the party must do in a provincial election, which is gain support across this province.

John Macdonell

I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they could track me down, I would be hung. And if they couldn't, I would have to find a place far enough away in the world to hide.

Ralph Klein

It is of utmost importance for Kosovo institutions to preserve peace in the province.

Oliver Ivanovic

This has been an ongoing problem in our province.

Loyiso Pulumani

Your statutory powers to consider these matters are explicitly set forth in New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 through 25-2-19) poisonous & deleterious food adulteration is the province of the EIB; your powers in that regard are very precise.

James Turner

We are going to hold the province to that now.

Francis Frank

Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly what is loose and what isn't loose. They know the guidelines in the inspection handbook, so they follow it.

Brian Smiley

Our goal is to set up 10 more methadone treatment clinics in the province this year, making about 2,000 drug addicts benefit.

Huang Fei

We are certainly pleased in obtaining this tentative agreement with the NBA, as it addresses important issues for both nurses and health employers and the delivery of healthcare services within our province.

Louise Simard

[Should such change take place,] patients would no longer have to appeal to their province for approval to leave the province for specialized health care, ... It would automatically be arranged by the health care system.

Ruth Collins

This is a very fluid time in the province, and I think it's incumbent on the government to find a solution and move forward, and it's not over yet.

Jim Sinclair

The annual quota of the trees to be felled in the province is set by the Central Government.

Wang Wei

We're close and we have to look at the province because you always want to have a target. If you don't have a target, you'll never move ahead.

Charlotte Rouleau

In a landlocked province, having an environmental water disaster is something that – now it's happened – we have to look at to prepare for similar events in the future. The commission is designed to help us move ahead and prepare for future environmental emergencies.

Irwin Huberman

The fiscal gap and the idea of Ontario becoming a have-not province are related, but not closely related.

David Watt

What's interesting is how strong it is in the province of Quebec.

Tim Woolstencroft

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Marcus Garvey

The idea of him penalizing his home province is obviously a very difficult one politically, and he didn't want to discuss it in any significant way.

Craig Oliver

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

John Fleming

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

Duncan Clark

Direct funding is not in the best interest of any province.

Pat Binns

There has been a perception that the Safe Schools Act provisions (have) uniform application across the province.

Gerard Kennedy

There is no reason, and certainly no evidence, to contradict Mr. Emerson's own claim that accepting Mr. Harper's offer seemed, at least to him, a way to better serve his city, province and country.

Bernard Shapiro

We're very, very worried because if the province or the [federal government] or even if the municipality could give them a tax cut then what's fair for one is fair for all. They'd want it here.

Doug Adams

Albertans work hard and contribute to the strength of the province.

Shirley Mcclellan

[The Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.

William E. Gladstone

It is important to remember that this was not across the province. It was isolated. Most of Northern Ireland got on with its life untroubled by these very serious issues.

Hugh Orde

The premier and the province of Ontario have abilities to stop illegal strikes. We would hope they would act on that.

Roger Anderson

Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.

Maria Cheng

In order to have a mandate from the country and a mandate from the province and a mandate from the city, one has to have a mandate from your riding and your constituents and that's not the case here.

Kevin Chalmers

Spending increases in Alberta are cause for concern and could potentially jeopardize the fiscal advantage the province currently enjoys.

Niels Veldhuis

This is about the province reducing its exposure . . . and doing the bidding of the (United Steelworkers).

Richard Orzy

What we have is low snow in the majority of the snowmobiling regions of the province.

Chris Brewer

Adding the Games may heat up the economy to the point where it runs up against shortages in materials or labor. The effect may be a higher cost of living across the province, cost over-runs on Games projects and intensifying price and wage pressures in coming years.

Derek Holt

It will be up to the province to determine whether that is required. Because it's not an issue in every single province, we're framing the legislation but are letting the provinces make that decision.

Reg Alcock

We wanted to make some meaningful centennial donations, both for us and the province.

Allan Wells

I ran a Bible study group and held Christian services for Americans in the province, did some counseling and was able to lead three people to the Lord who made a profession of faith, which was exciting.

Joe Kieras

In terms of manufacturing and jobs, it's not good for Ontario because we are so focused on the U.S. marketplace _ roughly 90 percent of our exports in the province go there.

Warren Jestin

The dining room meeting in the premier's office was critical, quite possibly. When the most powerful man in the province (speaks), you know he expects to be listened to.

Murray Klippenstein

It's very much a big-picture job. I'll be meeting with management and unions and other stakeholders across the province. It's very much an outreach job.

Steve Mahoney

(The province) does it to make sure that all pricing adjustments, all pricing moves are justified and fair, and should prices drop, those adjustments are received by the consumers.

David Hillier

The government has taken urgent measures, and the insufficient supply in southern Guangdong Province will soon be alleviated.

Li Yang

[He] sees it as one example, but a very good example, of the outpouring of love and support that came from across the province and from across the country to support directly those affected in tsunami regions.

David Spencer

We finally have an agreement and the government has showed good will in terms of helping out our province.

Jose Perez

We know that if we don't find an answer then we will be into a major crisis in this province, one that we don't need.

Jim Sinclair

We will start looking to set up another gallery in the province of New Brunswick, other than in Fredericton, to house works that belong to the Canadian and also possibly the British Beaverbrook foundations.

Lord Beaverbrook

What it requires is an agreement between ourselves and the province on the fiscal terms that are appropriate. When might that happen? It's not a month away, it's not six months away, it might not even be a year away.

Ron Brenneman

There's no way that all the marijuana being grown in the province is being used here.

Kelvin Goertzen

I look at Chatham and Moncton, I'm a little wary of them too. They beat us 11-9 down there and they can hit the ball. Ben Higgins, at 15 years old, is probably one of the top three or four young ballplayers in the province.

Chris Carlisle

It isn't realistic in this province to think that tuition is going to be frozen indefinitely. It doesn't make sense.

Bob Rae

We are giving the voter a chance to elect people they know so that people will get more involved in the candidate's program for his province.

Abdul Hussein Hindawi

Not many parties want the optics of coming to the rescue of what is considered to be a very rich province in Canada.

David Watt

The premier is just shifting chairs. At the Health Department we are only going to go backwards as a province.

Zingisa Mkabile

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

Ernest Bramah

We are tired of municipalities that do not spend money ... if it is not used this money must return to the province.

Zingisa Mkabile

Local reservoirs and wetlands are both suitable for migratory birds. The bordering sea and abundant ponds within the province have increased the possibility of contact of local birds with the migratory birds.

Zhou Liyuan

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Zhou Jixiang

Besides the experts, we will also make use of aerial, telemetric and archeological technologies to get an overall and accurate report on the current conditions of the Great Wall in the province.

Zheng Lansheng