"Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction."

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Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

Robin Boyd

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“Leadership doesn't come from age.”
“If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.”
“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.”
“A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England”
“Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!”

Source : "Happy Days Are Here Again" (song) (1929)
“I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.”

Source : " Japanese nationalist tipped to be PM, raising fears of tensions with China" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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