#ann

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#announced #any #creation #design #families

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#becoming #cannot #come #efforts #give

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#idea #person #possessed #reasoned

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#annihilation #appears #because #bombing #damage

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#friends #great #guys #i #mann

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#cannot #coming #conviction #demonstrated #geometry

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#competitors #enjoying #fannie #fought #freddie

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#brave #break #british #chains #could

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film. ↗

— David Ginola

#anthony #anthony hopkins #fan #film #hannibal