“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”
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“After a very long year we've got a very short knight.”
On the knighthood of the rather short Sir Robert Muldoon in January 1984. Lange repeated the quote on U.S. television as an explanation of Sir Robert's dislike for him.
Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.
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