"Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia."

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Source : Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Peter Costello

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“Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.”
“I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”
“Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.”
“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”
“Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28
“The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption â€” and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizensâ€™ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.”

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