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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"
"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"
"Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills."
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."
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