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Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum…

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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…

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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. — Jorge Luis Borges
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. — Martin Luther
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not… — Janet Morris
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking — Samuel Johnson
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all… — Francis Collins
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want… — Margo Jones
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By

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