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"Get yourself a copy for summer reading
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks..." — Nov 27, 2017 03:50PM
"Get yourself a copy for summer reading
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks..." — Nov 27, 2017 03:50PM
John said:
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This section of recent Australian History has been kept off the radar but for me and think for many others, it has an irresistibly urgent aspect. An idea whose time has come .
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""Bushlight", a revolutionary new solar supply system for remote Aboriginal communities" — Jan 01, 2018 03:17PM
""Bushlight", a revolutionary new solar supply system for remote Aboriginal communities" — Jan 01, 2018 03:17PM
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"Russian Dolls err does that make sense? I'm paraphrasing Tucker of the LSE" — May 07, 2017 05:08AM
"Russian Dolls err does that make sense? I'm paraphrasing Tucker of the LSE" — May 07, 2017 05:08AM
“Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
- Edward De Bono”
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- Edward De Bono”
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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
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“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
― Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
“The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.”
― The Shock of the New
― The Shock of the New
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