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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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"The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at."
    -- Anna Russell
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in t"
    -- Bertrand Russell
"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action."
    -- Malcolm X


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In the end, if you wanted to find one sentence, it became impossible for Kevin Rudd's colleagues to deal with him effectively and that's why he was removed and that's why in my view Julia Gillard remains the best person to take the Government and the nation forward.
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The government has a sense of energy about it.
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The core task of this Australian government is to keep the economy strong. I have assembled today a strong economic team, one with vastly more experience and vastly more competence than those we face opposite.
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If you don't learn things you are a complete mug. I've learned quite a lot from my first term in government.
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We don't make those decisions just by counting the number of heads in a protest march but we do make decisions based on whether or not a government is listening to the opposition, maintaining a free press, maintaining freedom of assembly, not using violence or intimidation, conducting fair and free elections.
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We are going to have to make some tough choices, but by making those tough choices, we can protect our NHS, protect our schools, we are absolutely clear about our priorities as a government.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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"What's most important... is that there is a sense of legitimacy in Afghanistan among the Afghan people for their government. If there is not, that makes our task much more difficult.
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