"It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues."

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V. S. Pritchett

#Tongue Quotes #Genius Quotes #Excess Quotes

“It's good to shut up sometimes.”
“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”
“You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon (2006). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When clowns make laws for queens, 1880-1887”, p.396, Rutgers University Press
“Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.”
“We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.”
“Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.”
“Growing another life inside of you is one of the strangest, but most amazing feelings anyone can have.”
“It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.”

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