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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 Brown

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
BOB BROWN

Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Innovation Technology
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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Bodies Fashion Left Resonate Shopping
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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Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
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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Chosen Country Learning Money
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Mets Persons Reflected
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 BROWN

Future Gun Life Real Security
The future will either be green or not at all.
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Environmental Future Green
For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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Black Breakfast Coffee Cream Filled
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Dies Green Long
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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Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Endurance Google Records
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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Inspirational Men Success
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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God Mean Men Religious
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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Eye Grandchildren Heart
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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Be Good Politically Presumption
We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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Flower Forests Wall
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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Be Kind Planets Reality
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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Clouds Government Land
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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Bang People Years
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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Age Billion News Voters
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Absorber Shock Want
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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Environmental People Positive
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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Generations Goal Green
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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Ambition Champion Economics
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
BOB BROWN

Changed Homosexually Lifetime Optimistic Repression

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