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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. ↗

— Edmund Barton

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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective. ↗

— Joe Barton

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Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature. ↗

— Bernadette Pajer

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Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies ↗

— Yasmine Galenorn

#enemies #words #death

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

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Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

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I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. ↗

— John Barton

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone. ↗

— John Barton

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I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. ↗

— John Barton

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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

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