#rat

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#liberals #only

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better #change #consideration #even #experienced

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#on-poetry #poet #r-m-engelhardt #writer #writing-life

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #find #hard #i #into

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#also #been #communities #deal #difficult

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#contribution #distinctive #enabling #generations #healing

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#anger #because #been #cut #face

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#clothes #hardest #nice #off #people

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#bureaucrat #fury #hath #hell #like