R. M. Williams Quotes
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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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I couldn't handle prosperity... I went back to where I belonged.
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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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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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I bet John Elliott can't make a glass of beer… [Whereas R M Williams can make his own products.
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I just wanted to see the wide world.
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The smithy was also used for welding. Everything was hot-welded in those days; there was no such process as oxy-welding.
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I was two years old when Dr Aiken drove into the district in his new Renault, the first automobile in the district…
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We are sculptures in the making, just begun by the great Artist; not yet formed but indicative of what is 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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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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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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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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No man can judge before the end.
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We give them a good product.
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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I felt at once that the job was not for me, and stayed in it less than a week…
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The mastery of those Aboriginals over their environment has been the inspiration of my life. I would like to be the master of my environment as they are of theirs. I think I have gone a long way towards that, but not nearly far enough. I have a tremendous respect for them.
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From the outback to the world.
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If I didn't do this I'd sit back and die. I was a prisoner in my own castle.
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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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The centre of Australia is a land almost without dew, therefore comfortable, and in spite of it’s dry bulldust, clean to those who know how to keep clean in it.
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I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!