"It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before."

-- Mary McAleese

#Years Quotes #Progress Quotes #Generations Quotes

“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”
“Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.”
“My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.”
“The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.”
“The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationalist will disappear.”
“I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.”

Source : Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center
“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
“As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.”

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