#vin

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#australians #challenge #chance #day #eve

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. ↗

— Dawn French

#biography #experience #feeling #first #going

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#convince #ears #every #eyes #fingertips

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#bacon #called #difficult #fascination #felt

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#depends #entirely #itself #seen #whether

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#dad #dynamic #every #i #insufferable

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted. ↗

— David Friedman

#anybody #been #concerned #conducted #first

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#absolutely #activities #alternative #candle #clear

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#creation #energy #first #giving #i

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#die #having #idea #lived #unbearable