"We must take our friends as they are."

-- James Boswell

#Reality Quotes

“In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.”
“I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.”
“The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding myth which states need - but which they should move on from after a time. Major John MacBride, in a cameo performance in which he left Jacobs Mill, as he had entered it, immaculately dressed down to the white spats, told his colleagues Next time lads, don't shut yourself up behind four walls. It was good advice.”
“I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.”
“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.151, Macmillan
“He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.”
“Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction...No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous...homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait....”
“My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”

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