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Hugh Mackay has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so…
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of…
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
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It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
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But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision…
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It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is…
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One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own…
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The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
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Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have -…
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Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be…
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Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a…
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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social…
— James Wolfensohn
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. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
— William James
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by…
— Thomas Paine
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless…
— Peter Davenport
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase…
— Dorothea Lange
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a…
— Les Standiford
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Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
— Bill Hicks
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There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
— Amish Tripathi
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
— Seth Godin
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
— Francis Galton
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