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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Barry Humphries

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

Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
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
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
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
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

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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