Jeff Roach
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“I can’t believe someone with such a supple mind actually got elected president.”
“In 1995, the result of the PQ-mandated second referendum on Québec independence was such a close call that in many other countries it might have degenerated into civil conflict. But that didn’t happen. Why not? Maybe because on all of those occasions we kept talking, since we know in our heart of hearts that what we’ve got is worth keeping.”
― Strength of Conviction
― Strength of Conviction
“We just go where we want to go, do what we want to do, and become who we want to become. We want to be unique, but we want to be unique in groups. We want to stand out, but we want to stand out together. In the age of easy group-forming, the basic unit of measurement is not the segment but the tribe.”
― Brand Flip, The: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it
― Brand Flip, The: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it
“Learning what laws can do, for good or ill, to transform society was a revelation.”
― Strength of Conviction
― Strength of Conviction
“We are not engaged in a war against “one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever faced,” as Stephen Harper recently claimed in reference to ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Talk such as that, especially on the part of a sitting prime minister, is unconscionable and an affront to all those who served in two world wars, including my uncles, who must be rolling over in their graves.”
― Strength of Conviction
― Strength of Conviction
“The open-mindedness we were taught, that willingness and desire to hear out the other side of an argument, is also fundamentally, profoundly a Canadian value.”
― Strength of Conviction
― Strength of Conviction
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