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"I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."

"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view."

"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."

"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia."

"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty."

"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police."

"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."

"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
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