"In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'"

-- Kevin Barry

#Teenager Quotes #Kids Quotes #Cities Quotes

“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.”
“Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.”
“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”
“People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.”
“There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.”
“Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new...”

Source : "Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir".
“Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.”

Source : "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.
“Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.”

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