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We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

John Ralston Saul

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John Ralston Saul
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Investment Banker
Opinion Journalist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
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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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United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.
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