Tony Abbott Quotes
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: 'To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby.' That is what I would have liked to say about my work.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.
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Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.
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I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
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There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
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Where the remote Bermudas ride,In th' ocean's bosom unespied.
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If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5
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I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
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All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
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Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore e costumato a la sua segnoria
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
