"If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic."

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Source : Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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“I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.”
“There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.”

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“My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.”
“A leader leads by example not by force.”

Source : "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.
“A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.”
“I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretationsâ€¦”
“I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?”
“An artistâ€™s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.”

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