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- Nov 07, 2020
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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
- Equal Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
- Big Mac
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be called evil - breaking treaties, breaking agreements.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway, the linkage between people, not the separation. And that's the history of Canada: our rivers and lakes were our highways.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
- Disappearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020