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Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to…
— Maya Angelou
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides…
— Robert Higgs
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A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound…
— Groucho Marx
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There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
— Juvenal
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
— Samuel Johnson
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so…
— David James Duncan
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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning,…
— Terry Pratchett
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the…
— Maya Angelou
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In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike…
— Michael Leunig
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Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With…
— Lord Byron
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