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Alex Campbell Biography

Politician

Alex Campbell, a politician, was born on December 1, 1933, and passed away on January 3, 1987. He had a rich experience in politics and held several important positions.

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“We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.”

Wells May Has Beens Realizing Blessing Appreciate Disguise Neighbour Provinces Blessings In Disguise Slowness

Author:Alex Campbell

“What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.”

Realizing Pleasure Materials Capacity Seeking Fulfillment Enjoyment Exhausted Decrease

Author:Alex Campbell

“As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.”

Mean Quality Progress Paper Standards Consequence Concerned Excellence Size Profit Prosperity Productivity Magnitude

Author:Alex Campbell

“But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.”

Seems Difficult Greater Progress Essentials Meaningful Despite Ingredients Lacking Meaningful Life Affluence Affluent

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“From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.”

Political Values Process Economic Materials Traditional Translate Parallels Material Things Economic Power

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“However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.”

Ifs Enough Spiritual Numbers Scene Areas Settling Urban Centre Spills Rural Areas

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“I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.”

Body Differences

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“I believe in God and immortality.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Immortality Believe In God I Believe In God

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“I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.”

Wife Baby Regard My Wife Residence

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“I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.”

World Boys Wife This World My Wife Peace With God

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“I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.”

World Heart This World My Heart Ill Ill Will

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“The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.”

World Want I Can Ends Reason Life Is Boys Wife This World My Wife Satisfied Reason Why Can Not Companionship Usefulness

Author:Alex Campbell

“I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.”

Knows Causes My Own My Friends Statements Motive My Own Life

Author:Alex Campbell

“Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.”

Years Has Beens Past Culture Party Environment Greater Economic Members Significant Over The Past

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“My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.”

Men Writing Mind Helping Spirit Views Wife My Friends Letters My Wife Help Me

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“I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.”

Boys Wife Baby My Wife Glad Baby Boy

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“To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.”

Humans Process Natural Effects Conquer Remove Barriers Substitutes Artificial Norm

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“My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.”

Taken Suicide Suicidal Morphine

Author:Alex Campbell

“We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.”

Way Would Be Able Quality Advantage Aspect Quality Of Life Detrimental

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“We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.”

Humans Terrible Drug Increase Strikes Protest March Alienation Alcoholism Dependency Advent Incidence

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About the Author

Born: December 1, 1933
Died: January 3, 1987
Known for: Politician
Quotes: 20

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