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The sheer incompetence of Australia's current management is for the time being an asset in maintaining high employment levels. But we cannot count on that incompetence for ever.

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Academic economists have about the status and reliability of astrologers or the readers of Tarot cards. If the medical profession was as lacking in resources…we would not have advanced very far beyond the provision of splints for broken arms.

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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Barry Owen Jones

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Born: October 11, 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Barry Owen Jones is an Australian polymath, writer, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician.
Known for:
  1. Sleepers, Wake! (1982)
  2. Dictionary of World Biography (1994)
  3. Avro Shackleton (2002)
  4. Coup d’Etat (2014)

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