John Ralston Saul — Canadian Author born on June 19, 1947,

John Ralston Saul, CC OOnt is a Canadian award-winning philosopher, novelist and essayist. He is a long-term champion of freedom of expression and was the International President of PEN International, until October 2015. Saul is the co-founder and co-chair of the non-profit Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a national charity promoting the inclusion of new citizens. His life bridges Canada's arts community and its military and government institution... (wikipedia)

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.