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One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise…

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Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so…
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of…
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision…
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is…
One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own…
The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have -…
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be…
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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Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are,… — Shirley MacLaine
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel
What we resist persists. — Sonia Johnson
As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter… — Tara Brach
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly… — Casey Miller
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron
In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which… — Michael Faraday
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise… — Erving Goffman
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we… — Jack Kornfield
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among… — Cotton Mather
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that… — Thomas Nagel

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