Nov. 10, 2010

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“I said before the game to all the girls, โ€˜I want one tooโ€™.โ€
โ€”Midfielder Alyssa Lagonia on winning her first OUA championship at Laurier despite being on the team for four years

โ€œI remember us scoring on the next play but after that thereโ€™s a five or ten minute period that I just canโ€™t remember.โ€
โ€”Shane Kelly, Laurier quarterback on his injury during Laurierโ€™s semifinal game vs. Ottawa

โ€œIโ€™ve got a year [of eligibility] left but I donโ€™t want to push it, being 25, Iโ€™d like to move on with my life…. It gets kind of awkward when Iโ€™m walking around campus talking to 18-year-olds.โ€
โ€”Steve Cormack, Laurier football defensive tackle, on finishing his career at Laurier

โ€œWe hand a blue cable sometimes to a first year student and they donโ€™t even know what that is. โ€˜What do I use this for?โ€™โ€
โ€” Richard Godsmark, manager of infrastructure and network security

โ€œTrust me, if we donโ€™t get some level of enjoyment, if we donโ€™t get joy out of what we do, itโ€™s probably not worth doing or weโ€™re not doing it right.โ€
โ€”Alan Quarry, entrepreneur-in-residence and professor at Laurier

โ€œIt would be nice if we could put an access point in a room and say โ€˜donโ€™t go outside this roomโ€™ but it doesnโ€™t work like that.โ€
โ€” Richard Godsmark, manager of infrastructure and network security re: WiFi signals

โ€œYour generation must learn from us, living witnesses, while we are alive. You must think, if [the Holocaust] could have happened in a modern, enlightened place like Germany; could it happen here? Could it happen again?โ€
โ€”Judy Cohen, Holocaust survivor


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