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

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  Simple, Asks

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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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• Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

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  If There Is A God, Political, Bankers

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

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  Culture, Bigs, Macs

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

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  Self, Civilization, Tradition

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• A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

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  Distance, Political, May

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