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. POWEIf our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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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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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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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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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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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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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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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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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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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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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