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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian writer, from the poem: “My Country”, 1908
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Man is quite insane. He would not how to create a mite, and he creates gods by the dozens.
from Essais bk. 2, ch. 12, 1580
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533–1592
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All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
--Clair Boothe Luce, U.S. politician and writer, Slam the Door Softly, 1970
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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
--Mark Twain
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If you need statistics to prove it, it probably wasn’t true in the first place.
--Jack Frost, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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The human mind is a wonderful thing.
It begins working the moment you’re born, and doesn’t stop until you have to speak in public.
--Anonymous
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