"The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)"

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Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.177, Anchor

Thomas Cahill

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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
“Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.”
“Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.”
“If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.”
“My future is one I must make myself.”
“Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”
“It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British Imperialist interests. It is the buffer erected between British Capitalism and the Irish Republic.”
“The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.”

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