'Bloody' has now become an ...

\'Bloody\' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
 Kate Burridge

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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 Seneca the Younger
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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 Sigmund Freud
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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 Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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 Abraham Lincoln
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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 Winston Churchill

Quotes from the same author

Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.
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 Kate Burridge