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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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.
E. O. Wilson
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Age is just a number, i won't change. i'll be immature for the rest of my life.
Jung Dae-hyun
B.A.P
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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
William Faulkner
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I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
Bronislaw Malinowski
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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.
Catharine Beecher
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
George Brandis
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.
Hal Porter
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Christina Stead
