"He is lofty, and I am eminent."

-- Gough Whitlam

#Memorable Quotes

“Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.”
“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.”
“At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.”
“Marriage should not be a goal; it should be a choice. One choice available out of many recognized as valid by society. But it isn't. Not yet. Right now, as far as society is concerned, you are married or you are not yet married. And as that notion becomes further codified our freedom to make other choices steadily erodes.”
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”
“Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.”
“I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.”

Source : "CNN Live Today", Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.
“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.”

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