"Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights."

-- Nick Earls

#Government Quotes #Australia Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.”
“Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.”

Source : "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.
“Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.”

Source : John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA
“Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.”
“We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.”
“There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.”
“We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.”

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