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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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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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Sympathy
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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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Taste may change, but inclination never. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! – Andre Gide

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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. – Sydney Madwed

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Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. – George Orwell

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I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I dont respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air. – Roone Arledge

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