"People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another."

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Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.”
“I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood”
“The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?”
“At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”
“When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.”
“Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.”
“Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.”

Source : "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.
“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.”

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