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• But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Determination, Home

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• [Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

  George Berkeley

  Nastiness, Christianity, Cynicism

  George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178

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