"Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment."

-- Margaret MacMillan

#Book Quotes #Looks Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.”
“Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.”
“It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
“Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.”
“Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.”

Source : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
“Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.”
“The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.”
“Art and politics have many things in common.”

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