"The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases."

-- Bob Brown

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“I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.”
“My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.”
“The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.”
“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.”

Source : Vera Brittain (1953). “Lady Into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II”
“I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.”
“I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.”

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