"The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews."

Source : Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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“The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.”
“One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.”

Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

Source : Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
“Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.”

Source : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.
“People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?”
“It never occurred to me that Iâ€™d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I wasâ€¦ well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isnâ€™t violent, he doesnâ€™t get his leg over the girl, he doesnâ€™t steal, and heâ€™s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. Heâ€™s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. Thatâ€™s not commercial. Heâ€™s special.”
“As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.”
“Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.”

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