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"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."
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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."
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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
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"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."
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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."
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"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
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"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
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"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
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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's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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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."
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"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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"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
Time

"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."
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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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