"No doubt, you've got a parliament now - I mean, Malcolm Turnbull says he'll work with the parliament he's got. He's got a parliament where a majority of the members of parliament want that law to be changed. He's got a parliament where there's a majority in each House who have publicly said they want to have a Royal Commission into banks."

-- Tony Burke

#Mean Quotes #Law Quotes #House Quotes

“The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.”
“To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.”
“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”
“I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.”
“And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.”
“My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.”
“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.27, Penguin
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”

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