Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEAlienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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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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