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"Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism." [Hubert Humphrey]

"Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science." [Hal Clement]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 11h

If a number's divisors (except itself) add up to more than the number, it's called "abundant" (or "excessive"). Example: 12

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h

Time for this classic again.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 19h

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." [Margaret Fuller]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 23h

"The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance." [Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 29/09/2026

I stopped at the 5th word of your post, because it's not.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 29/09/2026

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." [anon]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 29/09/2026

"Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps..." [Jack Canfield]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 29/09/2026

"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career." [Carlton Fisk]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 29/09/2026

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." [Isak Dinesen]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 28/09/2026

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." [Theodore Rubin, US psychiatrist and writer, 1923-2019]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 28/09/2026

"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men." [Emile Zola]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 28/09/2026

"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." [Flannery O'Connor]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 28/09/2026

Happy birthday to Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician who fled Austria in the 1930s only to face gender discrimination in the USA. See www.bbc.com/future/article/20191031…

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 28/09/2026

Happy Teachers' Day to educators in Taiwan!

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 27/09/2026

UN Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality It's crazy that governments continue to reduce taxes for the rich, while not improving the lot of the poor. Trickle up economics in full view.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 27/09/2026

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." [J.R.R. Tolkien]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 27/09/2026

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." [Thomas Wolfe]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 27/09/2026

"It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them." [Cesare Beccaria]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 27/09/2026

"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman." [Marian Anderson]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." [David Foster Wallace]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

"Just by listening and being kind to somebody, you have the ability to make a difference in their lives." [Jan Rader]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." [Gandhi]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it." [John Ruskin]

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Go back to watch this. It’s absolutely spot on. The massive jump in ON’s numbers isn’t “natural.” It is very likely an anomaly reflecting massive social media distortion. Manipulating algorithms? Overseas disinformation factories. Who is paying for it? Gina’s money @ Advance? Or? #Auspol

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

It's a non-issue given that the system doesn't even jail humans for things like #robodebt.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 26/09/2026

In music, a hemidemisemiquaver is a "64th note" or 2^(-6) of a semibreve (whole note). In 4/4 time, there's 16 of them to a beat.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 25/09/2026

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." [Robert Service]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 25/09/2026

"The power to command frequently causes failure to think." [Barbara Tuchman]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 25/09/2026

"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind." [Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, author of Don Quixote, 1547-1616]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 25/09/2026

"History, as taught in schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: kings and queens, political leaders, voyagers, generals. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all." [Martin Gardner, paraph.]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 25/09/2026

MusicPlusData visualization of energy level of songs (with music player) public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/…

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

Regarding how international law works at UN headquarters: If a U.S. law directly contradicts a UN regulation necessary for the organization to do its work, international treaty law dictates that the UN regulation wins. Given a UN organisation issued the arrest warrant, I'd say they have a case.

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Normalising cruelty is the point. Unfortunately the Albanese Labor Government has taken on the values and actions of Trump’s US war Dept and Netanyahu’s Israel Zionists policies and ideology. @AustralianLabor #auspol

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe the RBA and the government should be focusing on the ‘company profit-price spiral’ 🤷

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This SMH letter writer clearly has a better grasp on what could happen if LNP policy thought bubble on superannuation & housing were to be adopted. The banks already the beneficiaries of so much housing policy & tax breaks - don’t give them anymore leeway to ‘protect their interests’

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

If a number's divisors (except itself) add up to less than the number, it's called a "deficient" number. Example: 8

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it." [Nikki Giovanni]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

"The difference between a weed and a flower is a judgement." [Wayne Dyer]

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

Fines are a waste of time for insanely wealthy companies. Jail time for the CEO and upper management until it's cleaned up.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

Seems like you missed the memo. The rules based order, inadequate as it was, is over. We have to start getting real about what happens next.

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 24/09/2026

What decisions did Fadden voters take in the 2022 election, 2023 by-election and the Voice referendum? See this data viz. voices-of-fadden.org/voting/how-fad…

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