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“There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.” quote by Sean O'Casey — Download Open image

“There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.”

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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized…

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Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their…

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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and…

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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

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“The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor,…

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That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

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