Quote by Hugh Mackay
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equa

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. – Hugh Mackay

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The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. – Hugh Mackay

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Experience
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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? – Hugh Mackay

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Easter
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Im in total sympathy with Dick Smiths sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. – Hugh Mackay

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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. – Jonathan Sacks

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Im not going to change the world overnight. Its one person at a time, and hopefully theyre people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. – Gabrielle Union

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Change

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Change

I wouldnt change anything. Ive made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, Ive learned. – Enrique Iglesias

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Change

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The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing whats going around you. – Michael Nutter

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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. – Ramana Maharshi, attributed

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