"Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework."

-- Gustav Nossal

#Leadership Quotes #Country Quotes #Clever Quotes

“Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.”
“Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.”

Source : Ian Stewart (1996). “From Here to Infinity”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks
“I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.”
“O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.”
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“To a real child anything will serve as a toy.”

Source : John Cowper Powys (2013). “Autobiography”, p.29, Faber & Faber
“Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.”

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