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“You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.”

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Jessica Watson, born on May 18, 1993, is a renowned sailor. She became the youngest woman to sail around the world solo in 2009, a feat that garnered global attention. more

“My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.”

“The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.”

People Speak Adventure Scarce Sydney

Author:Lawrence Hargrave

“We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.”

Needs Exciting Architecture Planning Involving

Author:Robin Boyd

“Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.”

Thinking Used Interest Design Architecture Improvement Superficial Immoral Solemn

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

“Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.”

Church Views Design Regret Holy Terror Point Of View Architecture I Regret

Book:Artificial Australia

Source: Artificial Australia

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