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Independence is happiness.

Quote by Susan B. Anthony about independence, happiness

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Quote by Quincy Jones

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

Quote by Susan Oliver about country, help, children, people

As the global nature of work and contacts evolves, we will have a hierarchy of cities. There will be Sydney as the global city the concentration of wealth, which is happening now, concentration of very well-paid work.

Quote by Susan Oliver about nature, concentration, hierarchy, wealth, city, work

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Quote by Susan Oliver about nation, merit, death

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship...

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

Quote by Susan Oliver

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

Quote by Susan Oliver about children

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Quote by Susan Sontag about literature, writers, idea

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Quote by Susan Sontag about opinion, lie

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Quote by Susan Sontag about lie, self-control

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, ...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Quote by Susan Oliver about photography, life

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