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Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

— Geoffrey Blainey The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)

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In a democracy, all voters are equal but not all are responsible. Compulsory voting ignores that elemental truth.

Whether we like the idea or not, war has again and again been seen as the great auditor, the special testing time, of a nation's strength and fibre.

In economics, as in politics, no national reservoir can stand the strain when everyone is turning on the taps and few are bothering to see that the catchments to the reservoir are working.

Eye on Australia: Speeches and Essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991)

Democracy is a freak condition in the world's history: civil liberties are not common liberties even today, and most people in the world have never possessed them.

The Great Seesaw: A New View of the Western World, 1750-2000 (1988)

Christianity has both spurred and retarded the sciences and social sciences. Indeed, most of the modern debates of profound significance were originally dialogues with or within Christianity.

A Short History of Christianity (2011)

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

Martin Heidegger Nietzsche (1961)

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Robert Heller The Decision makers (1989)

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

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