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• Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Order

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

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  Happiness, Depressing, Views

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

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  Reality, Differences, Opinion

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

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  Simple, Asks

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• Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

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  Space

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

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  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Democracy

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• After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.

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  Illustration, People, Insulting

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

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  Mother, Father, Men

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

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  Exception, Absolutes, Statements

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

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  Children, Years, Promise

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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