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.
B. W. POWEMay the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
More B. W. Powe Quotes
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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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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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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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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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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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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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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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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