"It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably -……" — Michael Leunig
"It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways."
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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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…
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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…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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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…
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More Aberrant Quotes
This quote is filed under Aberrant Quotes,
one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem…
— Thorstein Veblen
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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer,…
— May Sarton
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I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand…
— Unknown Author
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What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they…
— Jacque Fresco
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There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
— Chris Stringer
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Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them,…
— Desmond Morris
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank,…
— Ernst Mayr
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My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or…
— William Eckhardt
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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of…
— Thomas Hardy
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship…
— Brennan Manning
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