Phillip Adams Quotes

• Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

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  People, Risk, Extraordinary Things

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

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  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

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  Mind, Internet, States

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• Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

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  Men, Political, Together

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• The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

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  Book, Addiction, Library

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• The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

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  Mass Destruction, People, September 11

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• The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

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  Wisdom, Party, Australia

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• Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

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  Leadership, Stones, Today

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• While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

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  Leadership, Hurt, Atmosphere

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• La fama suele llegar a quienes piensan en otra cosa, mientras que la celebridad llega a quienes no piensan en otra cosa. La celebridad es, si se quiere, una falsificación de la fama: tiene la forma pero carece del contenido.

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  Wisdom, Art, Thinking

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• Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

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  Trying, Miserable, Failing

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• Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

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  Home, Effort, Tree

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• Los viejos árboles muertos son los más fascinantes: los innumerables árboles que yacen en los barrancos y en las colinas y que cayeron hace quizá un siglo, arrancando sus raíces de la tierra al desplomarse. Las grandes sacudidas dejaron rocas en sus enormes tentáculos y, mientras se pudren lentamente, los troncos albergan poblaciones de criaturas, desde goannas a jabalíes. Tan grises como las lápidas de un cementerio, han sobrevivido a generaciones de agricultores, como me sobrevivirán a mí. A su manera, son tan hermosos o más que los árboles vivos.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• Para mucha gente, las vacaciones no son viajes de descubrimiento, sino un ritual de tranquilidad.

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  Inspiración, Divertido, Viajes

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• It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

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  Night, Earth, Radio

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• Los árboles son muy buenos amigos. Amigos firmes. Se podía confiar en que el árbol de mi hijo de cinco años estaría allí al día siguiente, acrítico y protector. Y pensemos en la contribución de los árboles a nuestras vidas. Proporcionan barcos, edificios, papel, muebles y, para los que llevan zuecos, calzado. Además de palillos de dientes y palillos chinos, ofrecen a los pajaritos un lugar cómodo donde sentarse. Y lo mejor de todo es que ayudan a producir aire respirable y a retener el carbono. Por eso estoy hablando con los Verdes sobre dar el voto a los árboles.

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  Good Friend, Naughty, Thinking

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• When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.

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  Years, Grandpa, Tree

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• Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

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  Leadership, Political, Volume

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• Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

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  Sports, Religious, Inspirational Life

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