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- The papers will all report another glorious success, and no one except those who actually took part will know any different.
- Private Leonard Hart, Passchendaele, 1917
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- I want to see humanity secure against poverty, secure in illness or old age.
- Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand Prime Minister, 1938
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- The British flag is our protection; without belonging to the Empire where would New Zealand be?
- Richard Seddon, New Zealand Premier, 1899
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- It is wiser to put up a fence at the top of a precipice than to maintain an ambulance at the bottom.
- Dr Truby King, Plunket founder
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- We distant sons desire to ... prove to the world how dear to us is Britain’s name and greatness.
- Sir Joseph Ward, New Zealand Prime Minister, 1909
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- It is not your penis we have been envying all these years, but your freedom.
- Sue Kedgley, feminist, 1972
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- The United States serviceman is a fine chap, a genuine friend, and above all an intensely loyal soldier.
- Editorial, The Evening Post, September 1942
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- We excitedly ran through the new house ... Light streamed through the curtainless windows ...
- Shirley Redpath, former state-house tenant, 2005
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- We have come far, from city and plain,
Our health and happiness to regain,
To strengthen our bodies and free them from pain,
To live in the health camp way.
- Health camp song, 1940s
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- One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock ...
- 'Rock Around the Clock', Bill Haley and His Comets, 1954
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- I have a moral objection to the apartheid system and, like most sportsmen, I want less political influence in sport.
- Graham Mourie, All Black captain, 1982
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- Keep the baby in the open air as much as possible ... Nothing is more striking than the marked improvement in colour, tone, condition, and liveliness ...
- Dr Truby King, Plunket founder, 1913
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- We can take pride ... in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars.
- Helen Clark, New Zealand Prime Minister, 2005
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- Surely never before has a new year dawned under such a universal cloud of fear, uncertainty, and want.
- H J Kelliher, businessman, 1935
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- A closet is a very dangerous place to be ... The more visibility we have, the safer, the stronger our community will be.
- Alison Laurie, activist, 1985