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Eamon de Valera

"If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food."

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"If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food."

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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

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Donna Grant

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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"So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it."

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"I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe."

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"God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part."

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"It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards."

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"We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course."

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"We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished."

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"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."

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"By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme."

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"Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War."

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"The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated."

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"When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end."

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