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We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.
— Michael Leunig
Tags: saying, breakfast, tree, faith

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
— Michael Leunig
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
— Michael Leunig
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It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.
— Michael Leunig
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I've learned to respect the whimsical.
— Michael Leunig
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Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.
— Michael Leunig
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