"When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians."

-- Noel Pearson

#Memorable Quotes #White Quotes #Australia Quotes

“The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan...was...age 70...”
“As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.”
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.159, Univ of California Press
“There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.”

Source : "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.
“[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.”
“Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.”

Source : Novelists, Poets and Playwrights (2002).
“Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. â€œAh, the Night Sea Voyage!â€ we cry, feeling that we have understood something important â€” but weâ€™ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.”

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