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Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.