"Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us"

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Source : "The Murder Machine". Book by Patrick Pearse, 1976.

#Wise Quotes #People Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.”

Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople
“If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.”
“I'm often asked why there is such a great variation among sentences imposed by Texas judges. I can only quote the Texas judge who was asked why a killer sometimes doesn't even get indicted and a cattle thief can get ten years. The judge answered: "A lot of fellows ought to be shot, but we don't have any cows that need stealin".”
“Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.”
“I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
“If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?”
“I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.”
“Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.”

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