"Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write."

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Alexander Downer

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“Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.”
“It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”
“Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.”
“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (2001). “Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution”, Lindisfarne Press
“Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.”

Source : "Bill O'Reilly: Hillary Clinton for president", www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.
“...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.”
“When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'”
“I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.”

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