"People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not."

-- W. T. Cosgrave

#Responsibility Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.”
“The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.”
“By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.36, A&C Black
“The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.”

Source : John Barth (2006). “Where Three Roads Meet”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.”
“I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“They should've built a city on rock and roll.”

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