"If church prelates, past or present, had even……" — Sean O'Casey
"If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose."
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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey
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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;…
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
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Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary,…
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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of…
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from…
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into…
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold,…
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A waste land lit by holy candles.
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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