No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
B. W. POWEThe origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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