"Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck."

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Source : Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”

Donald Horne

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Australia Quotes

“The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!”
“Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.”
“The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.”
“Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!?”
“There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.”
“I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins
“An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.”

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