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Quotes by Irish Authors
"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."
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."
"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."
"In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man."
"There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."
"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."
"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
"Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly."
"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
"I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together."
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