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"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."
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