Gustav Nossal quotes
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“Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.”
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“Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.”
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“I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.”
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“The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.”
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“I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.”
-- Gustav Nossal
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“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
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Source : "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto". Book by Aaron Swartz, July 2008.
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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