"Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!"

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Source : Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143

Thomas Davis

#Rose Quotes #Shining Quotes #Viva Quotes

“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”
“If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.”

Source : David J. Lieberman (2007). “You Can Read Anyone: Never be Fooled, Lied To, Or Taken Advantage of Again”, p.109, David Lieberman
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.”
“I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”
“[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.”
“For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.”
“I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!”

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