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Bernadette Devlin

"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."

Bernadette Devlin, Irish Politician
People, Parliament
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"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Bill Maher, American Comedian
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist
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"Too late, the ordinary German realized that the violence which before had been directed against 'other' people could now equally land on him."

William Waller, English Soldier
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