"I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche."

-- Conor McPherson

#Years Quotes #Europe Quotes #People Quotes

“I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.”
“The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
“Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.”
“(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.”
“In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.”
“just let Mitch be Mitch”

Source : Vince Flynn (2013). “Vince Flynn Collectors' Edition #4: Extreme Measures, Pursuit of Honour, and American Assassin”, p.460, Simon and Schuster
“Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.”

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