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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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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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From the outback to the world.
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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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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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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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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 just wanted to see the wide world.
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There were blacksmith shops on every corner, something like petrol stations now.
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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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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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Dad’s home was more of a depot for his operations than a farm or a station. His life was centred on the horse business. He stabled his horses in a long open-fronted building with pillars. There were no stalls for them, just a long trough at the back where the stable was attached to the barn.
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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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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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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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Expediency has marked the road down which I have walked to dubious success, and always the pirate, the rebel, has shouted his advice over my shoulder while the faintest of lights pointed out a dim way.
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We used to grind our own wheat and cook rabbits and kangaroos.
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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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A man must look to the muddy pit wherefrom was taken the clay that moulds him.
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No man can judge before the end.
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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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It's a long hard struggle from nothing to something if you're starting off with nothing, especially if you're raising a family.
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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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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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