"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."

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Thomas Keneally

#Australia Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Way Quotes

“I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.”
“There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3
“Silver is purified in fire and so are we.Â It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”
“Saying â€œI'll tryâ€ means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves â€œI'll tryâ€ when our inflated egos won't come clean and admit that we're actually not all that determined. We can't overcome obstacles with the words â€œI'll try.â€ As Yoda, the philosopher in the Star Wars movies, says, â€œDo, or do not. There is no 'try.”
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God”
“From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.”
“Hills tell old stories.Â Cliffs are poets with harps”

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