(7) September: "Conformity knows no time or place; it is the struggle all of us face, to be ourselves despite the overwhelming pressure to be like everyone else." - Anna Quindlen
(6) August: “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson (TEDtalks)
(5) July: "I believed then, as I do now, that poems can enlarge a heart, expand a soul." - Asha Bandele
(4) June: "Words can never recreate the real..."
(3) May: "He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize." - Oscar Wilde
(2) April: I never told you this, but...
(1) March: "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley
from wikipedia.com By kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle, it is claimed that one can receive the "Gift of the Gab" (eloquence, or skill at flattery or persuasion). The legend has its roots in the response of the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth I to Cormac Teige McCarthy's attempt to sweet talk his way out of a sticky situation, during negotiations of the takeover of the Blarney Castle by the occupying English forces. Cormac himself was the King of Munster, living in the Blarney Castle around the 14th century. The stone itself is rumoured to have been created by a witch way back in the middle ages.
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one of my absolute favorites.
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