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Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.
- Paul Keating
#Death
#Losing
#Loss
#Lost
#Music
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
- Paul Keating
#Future
#Leadership
#Responsibility
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
- Paul Keating
#Die
#Enough
#Good
#Humility
#Pride
I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.
- Paul Keating
#Great
#Mean
#Space
#View
#Will
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share.
- Paul Keating
#Art
#Best
#Culture
#Experience
#Eyes
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism.
- Paul Keating
#Complex
#First
#Virtue
#War
#World
When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.
- Paul Keating
#Business
#Council
#Era
#Help
#Reform
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
- Paul Keating
#Chance
#Get
#History
#Place
#Retirement
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.
- Paul Keating
#About
#Essence
#Euthanasia
#Inevitable
If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it.
- Paul Keating
#Hell
#Imagine
#Never
#See
#Sure
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
- Paul Keating
#Government
#Meetings
#See
#Two
#World
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.
- Paul Keating
#First
#Power
#War
#World War
#World
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.
- Paul Keating
#Accept
#Necessary
#People
#Respond
#Will
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
- Paul Keating
#Berlin Wall
#Down
#Field
#Off
#Victory
Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.
- Paul Keating
#Alone
#Capacity
#Russia
#States
#United
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it.
- Paul Keating
#Better
#Life
#Look
#Progress
#Reward
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.
- Paul Keating
#Australia
#Find
#Live
#Security
#See
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
- Paul Keating
#Great
#History
#Positive
#Rise
#World
Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
- Paul Keating
#Courage
#Imagination
#Leadership
#Two
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
- Paul Keating
#Architecture
#Chance
#Life
#Political
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
- Paul Keating
#Australia
#Country
#Sign
#Think
#Welcome
What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.
- Paul Keating
#Courage
#Independence
#Legend
#Sacrifice
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