John Ralston Saul Quotes
There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
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Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.
