If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. POWEHere I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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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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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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