Ted Dexter quotes

“Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.”
-- Ted Dexter

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“Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.”
-- Ted Dexter

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“Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.”
-- Ted Dexter

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“Who could forget Malcolm Devon?”
-- Ted Dexter

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“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Book by Alan Turing, 1950.

“This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.”

“Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.”

“Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.”

“And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.”

“His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.”

“Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.”

Source : "Andrew Forrest, chief executive of Fortescue Metals". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 15, 2010.

“Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.”

“In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.”

Source : "Roger Ebert still has questions for Casey Affleck". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2010.