Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
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Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Context: Women are unquestionably destined to exercise more and more influence upon practical politics in Australia…In the educating of the electorate in liberal ideas they have for many years been an effective force. Now we have an organisation in which all distinctions have gone, and with men and women working equally for the one body …
Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
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Geoffrey Blainey book The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1966)
“The evil influence of the supposed inconsistency of theory and practice upon speculative science”
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) civil engineer
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)
Context: The evil influence of the supposed inconsistency of theory and practice upon speculative science, although much less conspicuous than it was in the ancient and middle ages, is still occasionally to be traced. This it is which opposes the mutual communication of ideas between men of science and men of practice, and which leads scientific men sometimes to employ, on problems that can only be regarded as ingenious mathematical exercises, much time and mental exertion that would be better bestowed on questions having some connection with the arts, and sometimes to state the results of really important investigations on practical subjects in a form too abstruse for ordinary use; so that the benefit which might be derived from their application is for years lost to the public; and valuable practical principles which might have been anticipated by reasoning, are left to be discovered by slow and costly experience.<!--pp. 175
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador
As quoted in The World’s Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, edit., Dover Publications Inc. (1958) p. 388
The Angostura Address (1819)
“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Kelvil, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
abc.net.au http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3890402.htm. <br class="br">2013
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)
Source: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93