"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."

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Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

John McGahern

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“I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.”
“God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.”
“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers
“In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.”
“Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.”
“Young. Old. Just Words.”
“I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.”

Source : "Actress Kate Del Castillo Denies Affair With Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Admits She ‘Likes Him’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.
“For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”

Source : Jonathan MAYHEW (1750). “A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc”, p.55

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