Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWNBehind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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