"If you want to see what a 'contribution' really is, look at Man on the cross. That’s a contribution."
Catherine de Hueck Doherty (an odd mystic Russian émigré who founded Madonna House in the Madawaska Valley) quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things Dec. 2000 p. 67.
"It’s time to paint your butt white and run with the antelope. Stop arguing and do as you’re told."
James Langton’s guide to expressions British leaders might encounter from George W. Bush, in the Sunday Telegraph, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen Dec. 17 2000
"How can you get very far,
If you don’t know Who You Are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don’t know What You’ve Got?
And if you don’t know Which to Do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you’ll have when you are through is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true if you know What and Which and Who."
Benjamin Hoff The Tao of Pooh
The Canadian Centre for Men and Families - Ottawa is having a poker night fundraiser this Saturday in Ottawa. If you want to help support the only full-service hub for men and boys in crisis in the nation's capital please consider buying a ticket and attending.
This Saturday at 7 pm I'll be speaking on "Restoring the Alberta Advantage" at the Kitscoty Community Hall in Kitscoty, Alberta. If you're in the area and can make it we'd love to see you there.
"Let’s just say the alarm-bell ringers have a very good track record of being right, and those who dismiss them have a very good track record of being wrong."
John Thompson of the Mackenzie Institute (re warnings about Naziism, Communism etc.), quoted by Donna Jacobs in Ottawa Citizen Dec. 17 2001
"The important borders during the Cold War were seen as those that separated capitalists from communists, Americans from Soviets, East from West. But not to dissidents. Of course, more than anyone else, we were painfully aware of these fault lines because we often paid the price for crossing them… Still, while the fault lines framed the larger geopolitical and ideological contours of the superpower face-off, they failed to capture what for many of us was an even more important threshold – a border that did not separate the world as it was, but rather as it might be. On one side stood those who were prepared to confront evil. On the other stood those who were prepared to appease it."
Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer, The Case for Democracy