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Danh ngôn của John Ralston Saul (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be called evil - breaking treaties, breaking agreements.
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.