John Yu famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Stand up for what you think is right. That might be very different from what I am saying today, but you are allowed to differ from me just as I am allowed to differ from you. That is part of our strength as a country that we can differ from each other.
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These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.
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I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.
-- John Yu
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I must follow them. I am their leader.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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