Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven`t said enough."

- Karl Marx, on his death bed, to his housekeeper. Quoted by Paul Russel from a collection of reader letters, in The National Post, August 27, 2011.

Submitted by: Z.D.Hora
Aug. 29, 2011

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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"The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor."

- Mark Twain

Submitted by: Reddy, Michael
Jun. 28, 2011

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Monday, August 29, 2011

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"...If the Olympics can make us prouder Canadians, maybe Jack's life can make us better Canadians. I happen to be in the business of believing in miracles. We can do this. We can do this together. We can be a better people. We've seen how to try.

"When all of the talking is done, when all of the tributes are done, when the chalk is washed on the concrete at City Hall, when our crying finally stops, the legacy of Jack Layton will not be in how much power you have, it will be in how all of us exercise our personal power for a better world. It will be in our actions and how we take those actions together. Yes, bring your passion but also bring your compassion. Yes, bring your agendas of what you want to accomplish, but also bring a commitment about how we can accomplish that together. Yes, bring your seriousness about serious issues but also have fun -- sing together and pick up a harmonica once in a while....

...

"I met with Jack on the Friday and the Sunday before his passing. And Olivia left us together for a while. I said to Jack, `Jack it seems like it's getting closer.' And I said, `Jack, I want to say to you now something that I know you will do shortly. `Well done, good and faithful servant.' And may we, and may we rise to the occasion, because the torch is now passed. The job of making the world a better place is up to us."

- Reverend Brent Hawkes, from his remarks at the funeral of Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, August 27, 2011.

[http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1045969--transcript-of-eulogies-by-rev-brent-hawkes-and-sarah-and-michael-layton]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 28, 2011

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

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"When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the Earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change."

- Rachael Carson, The Edge of the Sea.

Submitted by: Kathleen Magone
Aug. 22, 2011

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

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"More people have been killed by coal than nuclear, by far, when you talk about the mining, the pollution of the water and the air pollution. Nuclear's not perfect, but it seems to be better than any alternative."

- Mo Brooks, a Republican Representative in the U.S. Congress. Quoted in "Nuclear Plant, Left for Dead, Shows a Pulse", New York Times, June 15, 2011.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/energy-environment/16nuclear.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2]

Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko
Jun. 17, 2011

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Friday, August 26, 2011

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"Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or cycle, without which there is chaos, a meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises."

- Ursula K. Leguin, "The Dispossessed".

Submitted by: Reddy, Michael
Aug. 3, 2011

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

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"Touring has always been a total crapshoot," says wild child and guitar prodigy Hanson, whose Saskatchewan accent is so thick you sometimes can't understand what he's saying.

- Austin Scaggs, in a Rolling Stone (August 18, 2011) article on The Sheepdogs, winners of a contest to appear on the magazine's cover. Scaggs spends much of the article reinforcing Canadian cliches, as well as conjuring up some new ones of his own.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 24, 2011

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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"History is Humanity's knowledge of itself, its certainty about itself."

- Gustav Droysen

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 18, 2011

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

- Jack Layton, Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament and the New Democratic Party of Canada, from a public letter written August 20, 2011. Layton, who died of cancer August 22, asked that the letter be released after his death.

[http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/22/pol-layton-last-letter.html]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 22, 2011

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Monday, August 22, 2011

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"Anyone who understood art knew that it never achieved what its makers dreamed for it. Art always fell short, and the artist, far from rescuing something from the disaster of life, was thereby condemned to be a double failure."

- Julian Barnes, from his short story Sleeping with John Updike.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Aug. 18, 2011

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

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"Fools and knaves can win power; it is the wise and noble who are worthy of it."

- Father Raymond J. deSouza, in an address given at the interfaith prayer breakfast at the recent national convention of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Submitted by: Z.D. Hora
Jun. 20, 2011

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Saturday, August 20, 2011

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"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be."

- Alan Watts

Submitted by: Dorene Smith
Aug. 10, 2011

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Friday, August 19, 2011

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Well I hear the whistle blowin, it plays a happy tune
The conductor is calling "all aboard", we'll be leavin soon
With champagne and shrimp cocktails and that's not all you'll find
There's a billion dollar bonus and no banker left behind

No banker, no banker, no banker could I find.
When the train pulled out next mornin', no banker was left behind

- Ry Cooder, from the song No banker was left behind, recorded on his 2011 album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 16, 2011

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

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"Robertson Davies, the Canadian author, said one of the most important things in his life was being able to take a nap every day after lunch for twenty minutes. That's for two reasons. One is that by developing a schedule that's under your control, you are not being flogged around by life, as he puts it; you are not always jumping to someone else's tune. You develop your own rhythm of work and rest. The other thing is that it's during idle time that ideas have a chance to recombine in new ways, because if we think consciously about solving a problem or writing a book, then we are sitting there forcing our ideas to move in a lockstep, in a straight line, and probably what comes out is not very new or original.

"For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. So they find their way, their random combinations that are driven by forces we don't know about. It's through this recombination that something new may come up, not when we try to push them directly."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, interviewed by Michael Toms in the New Dimensions newsletter.

Submitted by: Kathleen Magone
Aug. 13, 2011

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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"I feel proud to be English, proud to be a Londoner (all right, an Essex boy), never more so than since being in exile, and I naturally began to wonder what would make young people destroy their communities...

"However "unacceptable" and "unjustifiable" [this rioting] might be, it has happened so we better accept it and, whilst we can't justify it, we should kick around a few neurons and work out why so many people feel utterly disconnected from the cities they live in....

"If we want to live in a society where people feel included, we must include them, where they feel represented, we must represent them and where they feel love and compassion for their communities then we, the members of that community, must find love and compassion for them.

"As we sweep away the mistakes made in the selfish, nocturnal darkness we must ensure that, amidst the broken glass and sadness, we don't sweep away the youth lost amongst the shards in the shadows cast by the new dawn."

- Russell Brand, on the London riots.

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/11/london-riots-davidcameron?CMP=NECNETTXT8187]

Submitted by: Trevor Goodyear
Aug. 15, 2011

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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"...sending an email is like going out to dinner and Facebook is like getting coffee or just seeing someone at the store."

- Mallory, 22, explaining how millennials communicate. Quoted by Nick Shore in the article "Five Tips for Marketers From MTV's Study of Millennials' Digital Habits".

[http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/marketing-tips-mtv-s-study-millennial-digital-habits/228811/]

Submitted by: Laura Craig
Jul. 26, 2011

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Monday, August 15, 2011

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"To many, the immediate consequence of this freedom may often appear to be only verbal tumult, discord, and even offensive utterance. These are, however, within established limits, in truth necessary side effects of the broader enduring values which the process of open debate permits us to achieve. That the air may at times seem filled with verbal cacophony is, in this sense not a sign of weakness but of strength. We cannot lose sight of the fact that, in what otherwise might seem a trifling and annoying instance of individual distasteful abuse of a privilege, these fundamental societal values are truly implicated."

- John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, from his opinion on Cohen v. California (1971).

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 27, 2011

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