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If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

Neil Peart

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Neil Peart
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: September 12
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Composer
Drummer
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
Musician
Record Producer
Songwriter
Writer
City of Hamilton
Neil Ellwood Peart
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
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Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.
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How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit
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If you want something done right, just forget it.
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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
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