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John Ralston Saul
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John Ralston Saul
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
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We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.
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United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
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Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
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The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
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Obviously we don't have 300 million people. We haven't got a big army. We don't have Hollywood. We're a medium small-sized country. We have to do what medium small-sized countries do, which-even though we're not smarter than other people-is to make ourselves seem to be smarter. We have to work harder and know more than other people.
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
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We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.
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People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.
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The recession is over. This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.
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Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
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