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A confession has to be part of your new life. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
A confession has to be part of your new life. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
2014-10-21 19:10:03
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. -Jim Rohn
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. -Jim Rohn
2014-10-21 16:10:03
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. -Stephen Vizinczey
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. -Stephen Vizinczey
2014-10-21 13:10:04
"Gough came in with a view, I don't know how long I'm going to be on the stage, I really have to make a difference as quickly as I can. I don't think people understood the broader economic implications of some of those decisions and I think Hawke and Keating actually learnt from it, and governed more effectively because of what they learnt, I think our Parliament is a very important institution. I would hope that many more people of Gough Whitlam's talent would see it as a role that they should fulfil. I'm not sure there are many Gough Whitlams in the Parliament today." ~Philip Ruddock (is the only serving MP who was in Parliament during the Whitlam years. He praised what he described as very significant changes made by Mr Whitlam in the way Australia accepts its foreign and domestic responsibilities, but he told ABC News 24 they did come at a political cost.)by Clayton Bloom 4:41 PM
"Gough Whitlam was prime minister for only 1071 days - less time than Julia Gillard - but he nevertheless managed to sign off on a number of significant reforms, including universal healthcare, free university education, Indigenous land rights and no-fault divorce." ~by Clayton Bloom 6:01 PM
"The affection and respect for Gough Whitlam was on display when he once turned up to the Sydney Symphony free concert in the Domain during one Sydney Festival. Seeing him and Margaret approaching, hundreds of people stood up and applauded this great Australian. He was held in affection and warmth in the heart of many who benefited from the changes to this country that he brought about. Not least in the Arts." ~Audience comment by J Gross
Source: ABC NEWS, 21 October 2014
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TRIBUTES TO GOUGH WHITLAM
2014-10-21 11:03:00
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"Edward Gough Whitlam was Australia's 21st prime minister and a titan of the Australian Labor Party.
He leaves a legacy of unprecedented and unmatched change in Australian politics.
Arguably, he was as much lauded for his reformist leadership and eloquence as he was lambasted for his autocratic style and profligacy.
But it is for being at the centre of Australia's most ferocious political storm, the dismissal, that Mr Whitlam will forever be remembered." ~Emma Griffiths, ABC political correspondent
Emma Griffiths - on Gough Whitlam
2014-10-21 10:48:00
"Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji People and I put into your hands part of the earth itself as a sign that this land will be the possession of you and your children forever.” ~Gough Whitlam (formally handed the Gurindji people at Wattie Creek in the Northern Territory title deeds to part of their traditional lands on August 16, 1975 -ABCNews)Gough Whitlam, we remember you.Source: AIME, FB
RIP - 21 October 2014 at the age of 98
FAMOUS WORDS
"Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army – and a better, united society." ~Gough Whitlam speaks about abolishing conscription, one of the most divisive issues in Australian society during the 1960s and early 1970s. (ABC News)
"He is lofty, and I am eminent." ~Gough Whitlam compares himself to Malcolm Fraser in 1975. The pair later teamed up to join the republican movement in 1999. (ABC News)
"Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history." ~Gough Whitlam, speaking in 2002 about establishing diplomatic relations with China. At the time Mr Whitlam said "a generation of lost contact between our peoples has ended". (ABC News)
"I have more influence now than when I had the power." ~Gough Whitlam in 1997. (ABC News)
"I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it." ~Gough Whitlam quoted in Paul Kelly's 100 Years – The Australian Story published in 2001. (ABC News)
"My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life." ~Gough Whitlam recalls his values as a parliamentarian. (ABC News)
"Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer – a poorer economy, a poorer civilisation, because of this human and national waste." ~Gough Whitlam's 1969 election pitch for equal access to education. (ABC News)
"The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race." ~Gough Whitlam, writing in the London Daily Telegraph on October 19, 1989. (ABC News)
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Edward Gough Whitlam was Australia's 21st prime minister and a titan of the Australian Labor Party.
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Edward Gough Whitlam Quotes
2014-10-21 10:35:00
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens. -Douglas William Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens. -Douglas William Jerrold
2014-10-21 10:10:02
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"Why domestic violence runs rampant? If people had to face the consequences of their behaviour, ie,; their peers, their family, their victims and the legal system no longer "forgave" them, no longer "overlooked" the behaviour, and no longer "forgot" that they were abusive and gave them an excuse for it, maybe, just maybe they might learn." ~Sherry Lynne, FB
Sherry Lynne - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
2014-10-21 08:51:00
"It is the mind that makes the body." ~Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth - mind
2014-10-21 08:39:00
"I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come."
Brigham Young quotes
Brigham Young
2014-10-21 09:10:03
"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do."
Norman Juster quotes
Norman Juster
2014-10-21 07:10:25
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
2014-10-21 07:10:02
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. -Tom Stoppard
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. -Tom Stoppard
2014-10-21 04:10:02
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon quotes
Bernice Johnson Reagon
2014-10-21 01:10:30
We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our neighbor. No idle class shall linger there like vultures on the wealth we render from field and factory, mill and mine. Tomorrow's sun will rise in splendor and light us till the end of time.
Eugene Pottier quotes
Eugene Pottier
2014-10-21 01:10:26
Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit. [After winning the America's Cup]
Bill Koch quotes
Bill Koch
2014-10-21 01:10:20
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.
Donald Grey Barnhouse quotes
Donald Grey Barnhouse
2014-10-21 01:10:15
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. -Charles Baudelaire
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. -Charles Baudelaire
2014-10-21 01:10:02
Das, was den großen Künstler ausmacht, ist ein großer Wille, aber ein Wille, der gewollt wird, nicht der will. (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Das, was den großen Künstler ausmacht, ist
2014-10-21 00:10:42
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. -Trinidad Hunt
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. -Trinidad Hunt
2014-10-20 22:10:04
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