John Ralston Saul Quotes
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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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.
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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.
