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The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

Barry Humphries

It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Fun Needs Together
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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Art Past Point Seductive Song
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion

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