Quotes

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“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”

— Germaine Greer, What will electing a woman PM do for Australian women? Sun Herald, 28 June 2010

“Even if someone has done something that is disrespectful or even harmful, if you are still harbouring negative emotions towards that person or in recollection of the memory, then you are continuing the process and extending the effect it’s having on you.”

— Dr Suzy Green

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings

“In the networking world, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.”

— Robyn Henderson

“Being human is difficult. Becoming human is a lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift.”

— Abraham Heschel

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

“I cannot condone the systematic destruction of the hope and spirit of people who have suffered hardship and pain to reach our shores. They are people who believe that they have been or are at risk of being persecuted in their own country.”

— Former Australian of the Year and one-time refugee John Yu Dr Yu, Chancellor of the University of NSW and a renowned pediatrician, was himself smuggled out of China as a three-year-old shortly before it fell to Japanese forces in World War II.

“You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you.”

— Richard Nelson Bolles

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

— Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Columnist
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