May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B. W. POWEIf you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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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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Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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