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People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

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John Ralston Saul
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Investment Banker
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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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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Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.
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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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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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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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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
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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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Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created
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Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
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Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.
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Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.
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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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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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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
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We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.
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United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
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There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
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Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
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