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I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die. — Ralston Bowles

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. — John Ralston Saul

Brother Ralston smiles fondly, only too willing to believe in my womanly frailty. If it weren't to my advantage, I'd slap the smile from his face. — Jessica Spotswood

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning. — Aron Ralston

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. — Aron Ralston

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it. — Aron Ralston

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever. — Aron Ralston

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man. — Aron Ralston

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself. — Aron Ralston

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves. — John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics. — John Ralston Saul

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism. — John Ralston Saul

Everyone has an equal right to inequality. — John Ralston Saul

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal. — John Ralston Saul

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform. — John Ralston Saul

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. — John Ralston Saul

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. — John Ralston Saul

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

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon — Sarah MacLean

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies. — John Ralston Saul

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. — John Ralston Saul

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. — John Ralston Saul

I certainly made mistakes. — Aron Ralston

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul

Richard Atleo's Principles of Tsawalk, — John Ralston Saul

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. — John Ralston Saul

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. — Aron Ralston

I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now. — Ralston Bowles

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real. — John Ralston Saul

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined. — John Ralston Saul

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist. — John Ralston Saul

[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power. — John Ralston Saul

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain. — Aron Ralston

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far. — Aron Ralston

We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile. — Ralston Bowles

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say. — John Ralston Saul

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is. — John Ralston Saul

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate. — John Ralston Saul

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order. — John Ralston Saul

He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself. — John Ralston Saul

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. — John Ralston Saul

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

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined. — John Ralston Saul

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything. — John Ralston Saul

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her. — Sarah MacLean

If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for? — Ralston Bowles

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. — John Ralston Saul

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity. — John Ralston Saul

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end. — Peter Ralston

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. — John Ralston Saul

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. — John Ralston Saul

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. — John Ralston Saul

Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. — Ralston Bowles

As Geoff Ralston, a YC partner, told us: people don't really change, they just become better actors. — Antonio Garcia Martinez

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created — John Ralston Saul

..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth. — Walter Ralston Martin

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible. — Peter Ralston

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important. — Aron Ralston

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

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this - this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life. — Aron Ralston

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring. — Peter Ralston

He nodded. I no longer focus on meeting their expectations because I am too focused on outdoing hers. — Sarah MacLean

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium — John Ralston Saul

False hope is better than believing you're the world's biggest loser. — Duncan Ralston

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting. — John Ralston Saul

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul