"When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians."

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Source : "Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial" by Bridie Jabour, Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

#Memorable Quotes #White Quotes #Australia Quotes

“For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.”
“A book is a souvenir of an idea.”
“To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.”
“I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.”
“You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.”
“What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!”
“It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem”
“He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?”

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