Tony Abbott Quotes
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.
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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
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You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you
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Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.
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Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.
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I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
