Ends Quote by Paul Keating

“In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.” quote by Paul Keating — Download Open image

“In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.”

Paul Keating

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One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not…

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I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

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Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

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