"In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence."

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Source : John Turner's speech at Liberal Party Leadership convention at Ottawa Civic Centre in Ontario, April 5, 1968.

John Turner

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“A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.”
“I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.”
“you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.”
“Why do you keep saying incarnations like Iâ€™m some kind of god?â€ It wasnâ€™t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didnâ€™t even know how ask them. â€œYou are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasnâ€™t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.â€ â€œWhat?!”
“When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.”
“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.”
“What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.”
“The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.”

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