"It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?"

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Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Habit of Fear”, p.212, Open Road Media

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Attachment Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Ireland Quotes

“To take estrogen or not to take estrogen: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; at first the studies say 'twill end The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion - For then they say 'twill cause us all to die Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub; For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about What doctors might be saying come next week?”
“The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.”
“Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.”
“And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.”
“Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.”
“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr
“[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.”
“For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.”

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