"They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time."

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Source : "Anna Torv Is a Woman We Love" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 8, 2010.

Anna Torv

#Land Quotes #Yards Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.19, Random House
“... someday we'll remember so much we'll build the biggest ***** steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.”
“All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.”
“I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.”
“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”
“When will my reflection show who I am inside?”

Source : "Fictional character: Mulan". "Mulan", www.imdb.com. 1998.
“Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1979). “De Coena Domini”
“'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.”

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