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.
B. W. POWEEach 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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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 origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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