"Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid."

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Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

John Boyle O'Reilly

#Men Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sigh Quotes

“Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.”
“Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”
“Food, clothing and shelter â€” these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.”
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.”
“The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.47, Da Capo Press

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