"The Irish innovation was to make all confession……" — Thomas Cahill
"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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Thomas Cahill
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12 Quotes by Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill has 12 quotes on this site.
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(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first…
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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming…
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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
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We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and…
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The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values…
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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is…
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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as…
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Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were…
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If there are no books. There is no civilization.
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their…
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How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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