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John Ralston Saul Quotes

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

John Ralston Saul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Job Doubt Professional Comfort Rude

It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

Start Think Attention You Down Just

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Family Money Budget Die Debt Size

I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.

Hate School College Story Short

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

Financial Better Doing Early Living

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

American Philosophy Myth Republic

I'm not a selfish guy.

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

Society Search You Tax Right Up

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Love Time People Liars Only Who

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

Feel Interesting Someone Enjoy You

My son always says I like very weird music.

Music Son Weird Always Like Very

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Work Work Hard Game Week Silly Hard

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Life Thankful Blessings Started

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