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“Our liberties are imperiled by overly competent beaurocrats.”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

“A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Isolation and depravation were considered the reason Aboriginal people did not 'advance' like Europeans, but it is also true the idea to pour boiling oil on enemies seems not to have occurred to anyone in Australia.”
― Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu