Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
B. W. POWEThreaten 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 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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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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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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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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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 Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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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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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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