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“Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.”
Source : "All for Australia". Book by Geoffrey Blainey, 1984.
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“I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.”
Source : In Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) ch. 17
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“I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.”
Source : "Edith Cavell". Helen Judson, The American Journal of Nursing (p. 871), July 1941.
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“A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.”
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“Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.”
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“What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.”
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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.”
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“No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes..”
Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.11, Penguin UK