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Quotes by Irish Authors
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time."
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
"We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music."
"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
"But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores."
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues."
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