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"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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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."

"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."

"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."

"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing."

"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."

"When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime."

"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."

"The problem is not that we don't recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don't want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it."
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"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."

"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."

"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."

"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."

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

"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."

"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."
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