"One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds..."

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Source : "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 190), 1994.

Patrick Pearse

#Powerful Quotes #Night Quotes #Law Quotes

“...all my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells...”
“Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.”
“We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?”

Source : "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.
“To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.”
“What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.”
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage
“Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend”
“To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.”

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