Bob Brown Quotes - Page 2

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• The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

  Bob Brown

  Eternity, Pursuit, Here And Now

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were "wrong" in their own time and think, ah well.

  Bob Brown

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

  Bob Brown

  Thinking, Media, Democracy

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

  Bob Brown

  Wealth, Spontaneous, States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Learning, Australia

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• Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.

  Bob Brown

  Past, Age, Together

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• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

  Bob Brown

  Country, Coffee, Drunk

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• I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

  Bob Brown

  Long, Green, Dies

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

  Bob Brown

  Kids, Thinking, Difficult

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

  Bob Brown

  Character, Violence, Violent

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

  Bob Brown

  Goal, Generations, Green

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• We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

  Bob Brown

  Years, People, Bangs

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• There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

  Bob Brown

  Be Good, Presumption

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

  Bob Brown

  Community, Democracy, Depth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

  Bob Brown

  Clouds, Government, Land

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