"The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Kevin Rudd

#Responsibility Quotes #New Relationship Quotes #Apology Quotes

“I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!" Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?" "Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing.”
“See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.”
“Political suicide can end a career.”
“let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually itâ€¦starts to make things darker.”
“You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.”
“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.”
“I want to show people there's more to me than they think.”

Source : "For Rebecca Black, It's The Friday, Friday, Friday After 'Friday' Video Went Viral" by Eliot Glazer, www.mtv.com. March 18, 2011.
“Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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