John Ralston Saul Quotes
United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
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His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
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The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.
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If you're born and raised a New Yorker, you're probably pretty to-the-point, and you don't care so much about hurting people's feelings as you do about saying what's on your mind, because you assume they'll get over it.
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United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
