"There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand……" — Bob Brown
"There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't."
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39 Quotes by Bob Brown
Bob Brown has 39 quotes on this site.
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where…
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Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost…
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather…
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia…
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There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is…
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Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips,…
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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on…
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global…
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We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or…
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the…
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is…
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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More Beforehand Quotes
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one of 143 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken…
— Winston Churchill
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A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
— Wilkie Collins
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With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,…
— Sun Tzu
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
— Sun Tzu
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
— John Selden
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
— Cindy Sherman
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