"The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people."

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Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

Preston Manning

#Doors Quotes #People Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.”
“Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.”
“Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.”
“The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?”
“The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?”
“My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.”
“Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.”
“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.”

Source : "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". A BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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