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“I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.”
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“Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.”
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“It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.”
Source : Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”
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“What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?”
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“To know, is to know that you know nothing.”
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“Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.”
Source : Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010. 
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
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“The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.”
Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.128, David R. Godine Publisher
