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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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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds,…
— Martin Mull
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Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are…
— Joy Harjo
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Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
— Beeban Kidron
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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have…
— Tony Campolo
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Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
— William G. Tapply
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It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We…
— Jen Hatmaker
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Human beings disappear; their histories remain.
— Bernard Stiegler
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
— Hugh Mackay
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Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major…
— Mitch Landrieu
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