"The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Reality Quotes #Long Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.”
“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”
“In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.”

Source : William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.”
“Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.”
“Praise God for those of you who do homeschool. I can't emphasize enough: Do what you can to get your kids out of public school. If you can't afford to put them in a private Christian school, homeschool. Because they're being poisoned in the public schools. They're being brainwashed in the public schools, with all this secularism, with all this immorality that is being immersed into them on a daily basis.”
“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”
“... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.”

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