Graham Cyril Russell Quotes
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
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While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.
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Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
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Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.
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He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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If at the end of the year you want to be in this race, you've got to start stepping up and getting wins.
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You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
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If the Australians can't respect good cricket they don't deserve to see the best in action.
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
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The only person you resent is yourself.
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When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing.
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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
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I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.
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Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
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I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.
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Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
