John Hume | "The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."

"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."

John Hume, Irish Politician

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"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."

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"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."

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"You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved."

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"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."

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"It is a must to excel in our work."

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"Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time."

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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."

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"Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don't get connected, how will you get to know those people?"

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"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

People

"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."

Leadership

"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments."

Family

"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."

Opportunity

"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity."

Power

"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

Party

"In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side."

People

"I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely."

History

"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."

Government

"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."

Author Name

Personal Development

"You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."

Author Name

Personal Development

"It is a must to excel in our work."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don't get connected, how will you get to know those people?"

Author Name

Personal Development

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"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks."

People

"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."

Leadership

"My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments."

Family

"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."

Opportunity

"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity."

Power

"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."

Party

"In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side."

People

"I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely."

History

"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."

Government

"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system."

Recognition