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Bernard Montgomery2 quotes

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow"...[Rule 2] is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China." — Bernard Montgomery · 1962 Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead. — Bernard Montgomery · 1942

Dorothea Mackellar1 quote

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. — Dorothea Mackellar · 1908

Germaine Greer1 quote

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. — Germaine Greer · 1970

Helen Reddy1 quote

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman. — Helen Reddy · 1971

Henry Lawson1 quote

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands. — Henry Lawson · 1892

Les A. Murray1 quote

The trouble with being best man is, you don't get a chance to prove it. — Les A. Murray · 1989

Nick Cave1 quote

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed. — Nick Cave · 1983

Patrick White1 quote

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming. — Patrick White · 1957

Peter Singer1 quote

Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings, or any other self-conscious beings...No infant-disabled or not-has as strong a claim to life as beings capable of seeing themselves as distinct entities, existing over time. — Peter Singer · 1979