R. M. Williams Quotes
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I couldn't handle prosperity... I went back to where I belonged.
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He was essentially a quiet man, a man who never wrote letters…
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There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.
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When everyone faces the harsh facts of life and comes to understand that privilege is not a right but a reward, we shall return to full employment because there is more than enough work to keep the whole world busy.
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I just wanted to see the wide world.
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The urge to get out and go it alone must be strong in most people, for the spirit of man answers to the blood of his ancestors.
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I bet John Elliott can't make a glass of beer… [Whereas R M Williams can make his own products.
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In times of drought water brings us a major problem despite its essentiality, and this especially so where dams are the chief watering points, because as the waters recede the cattle have to tread over ground that is ever wetter and boggier and more difficult to cross. In their weakened condition cattle go down in this deep mud. Every day it is necessary to ride out and check these boggy dams and try to pull the cattle out.
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who set out to raise a family and pay my debts and stay within all the limits of acceptable society and still make some success.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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From the outback to the world.
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In plaiting, one of the most intricate artifacts I know is the watch pouch, made from a single stand of leather, that Dollar Mick taught me in the camp at Ettalowie. Based on a knot of great detail, it is always a prized possession of its owner. Over the years I have made a number of these and given some to my sons as Christmas presents, together with special watches.
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Our pioneers lived a slightly, not a slightly, but a great deal different life to what they now have, but we are, or our society is, what our pioneers made us, of course, and we've tried to bring to the remembrance of the future generations the kind of life and the kind of people that made Australia.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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In all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.
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People I can trust, people who have the same idea that I have about paying their way and having a bit of fun and the sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
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I’ve got to go and check my stock.
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There were blacksmith shops on every corner, something like petrol stations now.
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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[In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.
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My father’s people were Welsh, and the oppression of the burdened miners also shaped my genes.
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[In the 1930s] I got a muscleman to toughen up my body, and especially thicken my neck, so I could withstand the battering I knew I’d get in life.
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My father was a horsemen and had to supply teams to the people who work the agricultural areas, wool and that sort of thing so horses were our life.