Christina Stead Quotes
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
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Age is just a number, i won't change. i'll be immature for the rest of my life.
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
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I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
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If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
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Expectation is the springboard of achievement.
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The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
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The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.
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For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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The Australian has a characteristic which is primarily optimistic, I would think.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
