"I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years."

-- John Yu

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“To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.”
“If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?”

Source : Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if you ask me, I'm doing much worse than before, With the welfare cuts, I don't eat no more. So if I did wanna go out, I couldn't go nowhere, Cause I ate every last one of them reindeer. Rudolph first, I went down the list, I got so hungry, I just couldn't resist. I ate Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dixon, Fried them up and then started to mix them. And before you knew it, they were all gone, I wonder what y'all gonna do about my reindeer song!”
“My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow”
“The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.”

Source : Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”

Source : "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.
“I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.”
“The sign of the people of bidâ€™ah is that they do not follow the salaf.”

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