One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
BOB BROWNYet 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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.
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