"Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake."

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Source : Fergus Finlay, Mary Robinson (1990). “Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose”, O'Brien Pr

Mary Robinson

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.”
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.”
“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.”
“You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.”
“Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”
“I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.”
“No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood”

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