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.
B. W. POWEIt 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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Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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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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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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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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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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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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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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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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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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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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