"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security."

-- Mark Hatfield

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“I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.”

Source : "Actor Regina King: Divorce as a journey, staying a family and mind over matter". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.”
“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”
“In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.”
“I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.”
“I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.”

Source : Frank E. Peretti (2001). “No More Victims”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“Being naked makes me feel vulnerable. Clothes are quite the armor.”

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