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“...our joys and pleasures are only a compromise between our wants and our circumstances.”
― The Plains
― The Plains
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Pianos and piano players.”
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“Class in most places is about making the differences visible," say novelist Richard Flanagan, who grew up in a working-class mining community before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. "Class in Australia is about making the differences invisible".”
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
― Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
“The Ouroboros teaches us that growth and transformation come from embracing our own darkness and integrating it into our being.”
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“War is a bad thing because it creates many more wicked people than it destroys”
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