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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. Michael Leunig
Desperate Frantic Kind About Something Rather Something Kind Pursuit Itself Act Notion
For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul. Michael Leunig
Education Myself Soul Only My Soul Struggled Struggling Protect Years Trying Just Realised Actually
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. Michael Leunig
Art Man Sadness Young Philosophy Unavoidable Poetry Tender Like Were Existential Just Young Man Meat Works
Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work. Michael Leunig
Work Result Down Physical Looked Least Were Been Fit Bunch May Workers Hard Meat Lively Socially Honest
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. Michael Leunig
War Poignant Disasters Infinitely
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough. Michael Leunig
People Regret Sometimes Radical Older Enough Wild Back Immature Cringe Hurtful Cartoons Some Spiteful Failed Stuff Look Self-Indulgent Been Get Done Just
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. Michael Leunig
Failure Soul Light Sign Out Civic Disastrous Insulting Full Electric Electric Light Injury Street Shutting Night
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? Michael Leunig
Life Time You Memory Lose Older Our Bad Mental Wings Bad Thing Around Get May Wants Interesting Little Might Who Grow Thing Drag Starting
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better. Michael Leunig
Better Calm Before Unlike Ways Embarrassing Some More Observers Protest Authority May Asking Bodily Act Stands Deeply Oliver Twist
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. Michael Leunig
Music Dreams Soul Become Difficult Embrace Composition More Poetry Mysterious Feed Like Without Courtship Childhood
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. Michael Leunig
Culture Society Related Address Adequately Unable Citizens Corresponding Disturbed Somehow Seems Feel Contemporary Powerless Protect Isolated Normal Itself Central Inability Flaw Help
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all. Michael Leunig
World Father Half Living Other Once Vital Only Dead Boy Up Modern May Modern World Grows
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. Michael Leunig
Man Humiliated Dares More He Know Than Modern Modern Man Depressed Creature
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. Michael Leunig
Silence Man Clever Moral He Advantage Empty Modern Modern Man Conscience Thinks
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. Michael Leunig
Politics Alone Me Science Wealth Military Monstrous Corporations Markets Systems Above Massive Forces Understand Am Huge Spy Stock Banks Dynamics Sensing Satellites Hardly Technologies Imagine
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. Michael Leunig
Wisdom Best Reality Arise May Humbling
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be. Michael Leunig
Life Art Nature Rude Hurts Considerably Fact Troublesome Know Does Itself Very Offensive Often Just In Fact Apologize Certainly
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. Michael Leunig
Life Nature Humanity Water Control Sweet Human Nature Down Waters Takes Existence Human Lukewarm Murky
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
Good Great Beginning Good Ideas Similar Absurd Ideas Look Advocate Einstein View Notion Expressed
I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be. Michael Leunig
People Problem Fear Other Increasingly State Way Out Constant Finding Fearing Perhaps Most How Real Huge Wonder Just Difference Different Whether Them Might Each Humans
I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. Michael Leunig
Sense Hopes Dashed Road Heaven Paved
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity. Michael Leunig
Integrity Culture Political Sense Carry Citizens Temperament Hopes Having Shared Devout Continue Decent Hold Regardless Reasonable Lives
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. Michael Leunig
Death Needs You Yourself Better Will Say Abandoned Consoling Small Trophies Through Lighten Sooner Obviously Make Off Very Get Tiny Hole Full Notion Certainly Bricks Need
I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead. Michael Leunig
Morning You Heart Liberal Say Member One Morning Must Had Bleeding Also Forehead Am Were Woke Left Up Leftist Wet Whatsoever Tattooed Warn Across Now Right Things Here
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better. Michael Leunig
Life Time Good Better Too Much Made Own Energy Too Other Enough Spend Worse Hurting Nest Seems Sadly Because Making So Much Time Them Much Should Each Things Humans Imagine
On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have. Michael Leunig
Service Day You Jokes Coffee Possibly Could Dawn Fair Most Might Meaningful
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