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Quotes by Irish Authors
"When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"There's something about the Irish that is remarkable."
"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
"We're all somebody's prospect, we're all somebody's customer."
"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
"You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there."
"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
"I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it."
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
"I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet."
"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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