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Joseph O'Connor

"The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know."

Source : Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

Joseph O'Connor

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“[Positive mental attitude] is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.”

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“Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.”

Source : Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”
“Gifts are given, but fruit must be grown”
“The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether sheâ€™s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We donâ€™t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.”
“I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.”

Source : "Islamic Figure In New Tirade Against Jews" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 1994.
“Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.”
“I've always been the annoying kid who sang.”
“I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.”

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