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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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Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because…
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We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to…
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The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in…
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I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still…
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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the…
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When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…
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Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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In the name of God, the merciful, and the compassionate! Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind,The King…
— Quran
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