"If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen."

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Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

B. W. Powe

#Sound Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.”
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”
“I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.”

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“I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.”
“In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.”
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions”
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”

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