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| whenever i see cows while riding in a car: | cows! |
cos ur a good girl and u know it
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The Lucky Country is a 1964 book by Donald Horne. The title has become a nickname for Australia[1] and is generally used favourably, although the origin of the phrase was negative. Among other things, it has been used in reference to Australia’s natural resources, weather, history, distance from problems elsewhere in the world, and other sorts of prosperity.
The title of Horne’s book comes from the opening words of the book’s last chapter:
Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.[2]
Horne’s statement was an indictment of 1960s Australia. His intent was to comment that, while other industrialized nations created wealth using “clever” means such as technology and other innovations, Australia did not. Rather, Australia’s economic prosperity was largely derived from its rich natural resources. Horne observed that Australia “showed less enterprise than almost any other prosperous industrial society.”[3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Country
BUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNN, Australia!
(Horne said decades later: “I have had to sit through the most appalling rubbish as successive generations misapplied this phrase.”)
