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“Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.”
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“I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong”
Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.90, Penguin
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“It's easy, at this point in my life, very easy to write a beautiful sentence that's meaningless. A lot of writers do that. But I don't want it to be meaningless. I want it to actually say what I want it to say, and so I'm thinking about it again and again and again.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.”
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“When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.”
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“Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.”
Source : "Austin Mahone On His New Single And Summer Tour (With Taylor Swift!)". Interview With Casey Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.
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“A little bit is not that much to ask to make things right.”
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“One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'”