There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. - Sean O'Casey - Quotesmemo.com

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Sean O'Casey

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

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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Art, Asparagus, Divinity, Inspirational, Life

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, and we will give you work.

Eroding, Giving, Massive, People, Stone, Work

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 cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

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Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

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I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Insightful, Life, Maybe, Sometime, Song

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