"If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about."

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Source : Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.62, Macmillan

Pete McCarthy

#Guilt Quotes #Kind Quotes #Guilty Quotes

“They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.”
“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”
“What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.”

Source : "More Guns = More Killing". www.nytimes.com. January 5, 2013.
“As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.”
“The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.”
“No other art-mediumâ€“neither painting nor poetryâ€“can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of eventsâ€“we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.”
“Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.”

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