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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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Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and…
— Georges Bataille
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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know…
— Al Pacino
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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to…
— Geronimo
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at…
— Milan Kundera
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We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.
— Ben Ehrenreich
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They…
— Gaston Bachelard
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You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest…
— Melina Mercouri
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of…
— James Fenton
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony…
— John Sergeant Wise
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We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the…
— John Lennox
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