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