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First sentence in his 2004 book, Speaking out.

— Jack Layton

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

“That’s been a hashtag fail." And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: "With the bling and everything that comes with it."

This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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