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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#acquainted #anniversary #attending #australia #children

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it? ↗

— Henry Lawson

#australia #countryman #englishman #every #finds

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#five #hundred #intellectual #intellectual development #least

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enforcing #god #indigestion #morality #stomach

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

The first requisite for immortality is death. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#first #immortality #requisite

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!' ↗

— Heath Ledger

#australia #big #everybody #field #girl

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#doing #done #films #i #might

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments. ↗

— Anna Lee

#beautiful #because #comments #elegant #gown

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#agree #allowed #authority #bring #dealing