"I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build a more detailed world. I think it applies to what Gord Downie is doing with his body of work, which is to build a more detailed world and there's something really political about that."

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John K. Samson

#Thinking Quotes #Political Quotes #Listening Quotes

“A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.”
“Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.”
“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”
“I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.”

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“The loss of control you fear is already in the past.”
“Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.”

Source : Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne
“If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.”
“And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.”

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