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.
B. W. POWEIf 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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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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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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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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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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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