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"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."
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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
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"Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it."
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"All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you."
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"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."
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"The present offers fresh opportunities."
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"By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes."
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"Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best."
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"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."
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"He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue."
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"Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times."
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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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