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Richard Flanagan Quotes

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

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Change Hope Power Generosity World

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Wait Present Long You Pose Clear

What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.

Stefan Molyneux

People Talking Get Closer Should

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader.

Good Leader Vision Personality Team

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Words View Show Whole Wanting Court

If we don't get a hold of what we owe Americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses.

Veterans System Hold Get Who Owe

There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.

Change Society New Will Need Always

I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident.

Think Snowboarding Accident Even

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

School High School Doing Manager Got

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature Law Legal Human Nature Born

Good music is timeless, whether it's a country song, rock, or R&B.

Good Music Song Country Rock

In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.

Hope Man Saying Voice Clothes House

I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.

Son Doing Three Way Project Years

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