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.
B. W. POWEThe 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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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 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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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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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