"In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from."

-- Anne Enright

#Grandparent Quotes #Surnames Quotes #Static Quotes

“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”
“Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.”
“The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.”
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”
“Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.”
“I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.”
“I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.”
“Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age â€¦ but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.”

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