"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

Nationality, First, Ireland

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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

Nationality, Ireland, Old

"You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman."

Religion, Forget, Heaven, Woman

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

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"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."

World,

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

Genius, Discovery, Errors, Man

"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

Soul,

"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."

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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

Lena Horne, American Actress

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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."

William Joyce, American Author

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"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

O. Henry, American Writer

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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."

Gustave Courbet, French Artist

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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."

Jesse Helms, American Politician

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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

O. Henry, American Writer

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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

O. Henry, American Writer

Nationality, Climate, May, Weather