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I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

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
Thinking
Linear
Agnostic
Atheist
Folks

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But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...
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Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
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Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
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I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
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Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
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Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
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Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.
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