"Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since."

-- Tana French

#Years Quotes #Class Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.”
“We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.”

Source : Kitty Ferguson (1994). “The Fire in the Equations”
“I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.”
“It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.”
“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”
“Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.”
“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”

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