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“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”
Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.”
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“It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.”
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“There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference...”
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“We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.”
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“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
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“There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.”
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“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.”
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“It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.”
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“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.”
Source : Harold Innis (2017). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.318, University of Toronto Press
