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"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
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"When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you."
"For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere)."
"Your discovery determines what you are known for."
"Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities."
"That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside."
"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."
"Real science begins with curiosity and madness."
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"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
"Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me."
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."
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