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All Quotes Collection
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
54
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
33
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
14
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
18
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
16
"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
59
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
64
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
57
"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
30
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
51
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
34
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
33
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
34
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
32
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
32
"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
37
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
30
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
60
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
30
"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."
32
"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
44
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
35
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
34
"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
45
"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
40
"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence."
55
"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
30
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
81
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
37
"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
46
"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
42
"Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives."
48
"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."
58
"The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism."
35
"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
52
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
60
"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
55
"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full."
39
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."
34
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
35
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
57
"It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo."
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