"We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen."

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Source : "Abbott faces questions over comments in Sri Lanka". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 18, 2013.

Tony Abbott

#Sometimes Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.”
“Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1946). “Tell Your Sons: A Novel of the Napoleonic Era”
“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
“I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen”
“I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.”
“We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.”

Source : Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)
“You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the earth, Sun & all sorts of things-for I think it is the true way (corrected by judgement) to work out a discovery.”

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