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Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
New York
Cities
Two
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I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Love
Passing By
Passings
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What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Britain
East
Great Britain
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Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Company
Considering
Surprising
Hardly
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I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Women
Enough
Honest
Women Men I Am
Few Men
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In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Contempt
Party
Remarkable
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More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Good Things
Indifference
Things In Life
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Devising
Never Forget
Policy
Posterity
Speech
Thinking
Never Forget Never Forget
Never Forget Forget Never
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Anonymous Letters
Party
Thousand
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"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Pay
Taxes
Virtue
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One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Economist
Opinion
Speak
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When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
People
Thinking
Wife
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A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Lasts
May
Tough
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One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Bureaucrats
Years
Young
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Men
Country
Example
Horrible
Successful
Concentrated
Contribute
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It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Wisdom
Hope
Truth
Bitterness
Cultivation
Enemy
Forgotten
Joy
Retrospective
Simple
Greatest
High
Hopes
Present
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My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Education
Leadership
Learning
Pieces
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Blow
British
Character
Law
Noble
Products
Respectable
Rule Of Law
Greatest
Deadly
Suffered
Rule
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Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Class
People
Thinking
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We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Believe
Party
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Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for existence. The important thing is to have a faith to live by, and that goes for us in this party.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Example
Important
Party
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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Leadership
Democracy
Effort
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The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Business
Men
Class
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Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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Men
Thinking
Two
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Art
Intelligent
People
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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Business
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Wall
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