"It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia."

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Source : Henry Lawson (1984). “A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900”

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“I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.”

Source : "Samantha tells of secret stroke" by Vanessa Thorpe and Andy Capper, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.
“If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.”
“Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.”

Source : "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
“We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!”
“Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.”
“When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important.”
“During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.”
“Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.”

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