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Time is aboriginal eternal
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
Their over-greedy love has surfeited.
An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
I love Australian people.
woollyheads and silvergrays, and am unable to understand
Australia is filled with roundabouts and everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. In the end we decided to split up the work and I feverishly watched the GPS and yelled, Left! Right! ROUNDABOUT!
In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun.
Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires ...
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
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fallen empires of kings, dictators, and fools who were passionate, certain, and wrong.
The Commonwealth - humanity - is in deep shit, and we're the people with the shovels.
We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity
Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime
Before Nubrevna, it had been Dalmotti. Before Dalmotti, it had been Marstok. For centuries, this peninsula had changed hands, and for centuries, no one had ever fully won - or ever fully lost.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.
England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.
The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.
If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
I love Australia - I think.
Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
After a war of about 40 years, undertaken by the most stupid [Claudius], maintained by the most dissolute [Nero], and terminated by the most timid [Domitian] of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island [of Britain] submitted to the Roman yoke.
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.
Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake
And behold there the constellations
Of both hemispheres at once?
-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes
Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.
Tritons Trident!
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
Hexapodia as the key insight
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.
Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.
We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere, and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.
ROS (mournfully): Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.
GUIL: What?
ROS: England.
GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean.
You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators
That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'
We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun, to ignominy and a wealth of digging. We sang as we marched. They did not.
Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
America, half-brother of the world!
We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen's freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakeable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity (WWF 267)
The Ainu youth came upon a band of Ainu hunters passing through the area. "What is this area called?" he asked them.
"Do you really think this asshole of a terrain even deserves a name?" they replied.
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.
It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
( ... ) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.
Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow
Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?
The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
I take this continent with me into the grave.
I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see."
"Oh. You're a bit east.
Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
Empire and liberty.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.
One omen is best; Defending the fatherland
The only Aniimal with 2 ii's!
The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time.
What in the name of Zeus's testicles?
Australia is the most isolated continent.
Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!
Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls
First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
I support all Australian films.