Julian Burnside quotes
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“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.”
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“Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.”
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“Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation”
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“Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining”
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner
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Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
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“In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.”
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