"He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes."

-- Frederick William Robertson

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“My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.”
“Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.”
“There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.”
“When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'”
“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”
“She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.”

Source : "Yeats Is Dead! by Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle et al, Joseph O'Connor". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2001.
“Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”

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