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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

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Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. MacGibbon & Kee, 1970.

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McCullough, Colleen. The Thorn Birds. Harper & Row, 1977, epigraph.

The trouble
with being best man is, you don't get a chance
to prove it.

Les A. Murray

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Murray, Les A. The Boys Who Stole the Funeral: A Novel Sequence. Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1980.

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Singer, Peter. Practical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 1979, ch. 7.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Helen Reddy

I Am Woman

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Reddy, Helen and Ray Burton. "I Am Woman." Performed by Helen Reddy. I Don't Know How to Love Him. Capitol Records, 1971.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.

Dorothea Mackellar

Core of My Heart

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "Core of My Heart." The Spectator, 5 Sept. 1908.

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "My Country." My Country and Other Poems. Viking, 1988.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush-the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

Henry Lawson

The Bush Undertaker

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Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Antipodean, 1892.

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Lawson, Henry. "The Bush Undertaker." The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories. Penguin Books, 1986.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.