"Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery."

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Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

John Ralston Saul

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“I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.”
“[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It's really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It's quite different.”
“Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.”

Source : "Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444". 1931.
“The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.”

Source : "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.
“There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.”
“Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.”
“The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.”
“The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.”

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