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  Let these Aboriginal quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
  We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred
  ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
  - Christopher Atkins
  The coast of British Columbia was one of the three
  chief centers of aboriginal America.
  - Ellsworth Huntington
  We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past,
  but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner
  openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
  - Arthur Murray
  Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services -
  some have been doing so for 30 years.
  They struggle with difficult medical problems.
  They also try to deal with counselling,
  stolen generations issues, family relationships,
  violence, suicide prevention.
  - Malcolm Fr.
  - Phillip Noyce
  The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature
  and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important
  part of getting performances from them was just letting
  them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality
  that was in each of them.
  - Phillip Noyce
  My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories
  through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal
  people that you must always protect people's sacred status,
  regardless of the pest.
  - Steve Irwin
  The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because
  they realise that welfare is killing them.
  - Pauline Hanson
  The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody
  in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
  - Arthur Murray
  The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock,
  first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
  - William M. Evarts
  There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school,
  but we never spoke to them.
  They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes.
  They weren't acknowledged officially either.
  - Phillip Noyce
  Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
  - Herbert Spencer
  With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
  - Thomas Fuller
  Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
  - Billy Sunday
  In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -
  a pious guardian of some affection,
  of which the object has disappeared.
  - Henri Frederic Amiel
  Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious
  ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to
  wait for a completely godless Jew?
  - Sigmund Freud
  Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
  - Georg Hermes
  The real problem is not why some pious,
  humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
  - C. S. Lewis
  Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some
  whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
  - Daisy Ashford
  The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague,
  enormous and menacing.
  - Aleister Crowley
  A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
  - Jean de la Bruyere
  I am calling attention just to the main points of these
  tremendously important matters,
  which can be understood better by pious meditation
  than explained by human language.
  - Martin Chemnitz
  No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese
  are incapable of religious experience,
  even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
  - Hu Shih
  For the myth is the foundation of life;
  it is the timeless schema,
  the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces
  its traits out of the unconscious.
  - Thomas Mann
  Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers;
  decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
  - Lionel Blue
  Your meditations may be as profound,
  as exalted,
  as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage,
  but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament.
  What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
  - Johannes Tauler
  But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.
  what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries
  the indignation of a pious spirit,
  with its natural following of oppressed souls,
  will cast down with a single shove.
  - Jose Mart
  Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the
  future instead of merely trying with pious regret to
  salvage the human wreckage of the famine,
  as he has so often done in the past.
  - Norman Borlaug
  See, even despite pious statements to the contrary,
  much of the industrialized world has not yet come to
  terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I
  call the strong man syndrome.
  - Wole Soyinka
  Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  It is not a life at all.
  It is a reticence, in three volumes.
  - William E. Gladstone
  I don't think many people have ever read the report.
  Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read
  the summary? If you read the summary,
  it takes a long time.
  - John Sherman Cooper
  Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes.
  Yet what is wisdom without memory?
  - Martin Farquhar Tupper
  The best books of our times have included the three
  mature volumes of Philip Larkin.
  They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
  - Robert Morgan
  Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person
  who does portraits for a living? I could fill several
  volumes with nice nasty stories.
  I don't know.
  - Imogen Cunningham
  All of the biggest technological inventions created by man -
  the airplane,
  the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence,
  but speaks volumes about his laziness.
  - Mark Kennedy
  And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry,
  he will be but a walking dictionary:
  a mere articulate clock.
  - George Chapman
  The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
  - James Agee
  Are we not like two volumes of one book?
  - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain
  a few odd volumes of Shakespeare.
  I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for
  the first time in a log cabin.
  - Alexis de Tocqueville
  Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great
  inaudible feelings and purposes.
  - Theodore Dreiser
  Precepts or maxims are of great weight;
  and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a
  happy life than the volumes we can't find.
  - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  I've got volumes on how not to behave.
  I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
  - Charlie Sheen
  It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years
  of memories and the people behind the words-and even
  though that guest book can speak volumes,
  in between, the pages remain so silent.
  - Eugenie Anderson
  I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary,
  which report on all these events and the share I had in them;
  but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the
  officers of the American Army who arrested me.
  - Hans Frank
  Experience alone can give a final answer.
  The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission
  of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes
  of mere assertions and contradictions.
  - John Bates Clark
  Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and
  had settled down with other men to raise families of their own,
  Hugh Hefner still considered them his women,
  and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
  - Gay Talese is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that
  despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses
  who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,
  there are still those who would deny it.
  - Mark Udall
  If a secret history of books could be written,
  and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted
  down alongside of his story,
  how many insipid volumes would become interesting,
  and dull tales excite the reader!
  - William Makepeace Thackeray
  Although economists have studied the sensitivity of
  import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate,
  there is still much uncertainty about just how much
  the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
  - Martin Feldstein
  I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years
  of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege
  and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes
  of the series with this preface.
  - James Loeb
  Yesterday is history,
  tomorrow is a mystery.
  Today is a gift.
  That is why it is called Present.
  - Anonymous
  "Be Prepared."
  "Be prepared for what?"
  "Why, for any old thing."
  - Robert Baden-Powell,
  the founder of Scouting.
  [as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
  There are those that look at things
  the way they are, and ask "Why?"
  I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
  - Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
  Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
  Why then do we so fight against change?
  - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
  - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
  - Friedrich Nietzsche
  I can't understand why people
  are frightened by new ideas.
  I'm frightened of old ones.
  - John Cage
  WHY do you care what THEY think?
  - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  Why not go out on a limb?
  Isn't that where the fruit is?
  - Mark Twain
  Urgent? Why?
  - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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