"The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you."

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Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

James Larkin

#Fate Quotes #Land Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.”
“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.”
“A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.”
“One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.”
“If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.”
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
“But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.”
“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”

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