Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
B. W. POWEWe 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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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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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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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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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