The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. POWEElectrical 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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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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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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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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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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 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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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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