There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
BOB BROWNI think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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