"Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business."

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Peter Costello

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“A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.”
“The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.”
“I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.”
“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”
“We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.”
“Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.”
“The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.”

Source : "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

Source : FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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