Geoffrey Blainey quotes

Geoffrey Blainey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.”
-- Geoffrey Blainey

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“Immigration is everyoneâ€™s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.”
-- Geoffrey Blainey

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“Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug”
-- Geoffrey Blainey

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“Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.”
-- Geoffrey Blainey

Source : "All for Australia". Book by Geoffrey Blainey, 1984.

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“I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.”
-- Geoffrey Blainey

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“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”
“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”
“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”
“The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,”

Source : "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
“This is the century of fear.”
“Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.”

Source : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale
“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree
“I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.”

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