"New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape."

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Source : Robert David Muldoon (1981). “My Way”, Wellington : Reed

Robert Muldoon

#Initiative Quotes

“Know yourself, to know others.”
“I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live in a box with bags over their heads. Though he and I hardly agree on politics (I voted for Ralph Nader last year and may go Green again in 2004), I respect Limbaugh as a political analyst and deft rhetorician who is a master of the microphone and who knows how to engage and challenge a vast audience.”
“Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.”
“Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.”
“We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.”
“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
“A vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Isreal.”
“A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.”

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