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The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.

Bernadette Devlin

It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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Letting Go Long People
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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Hippie Inspirational Women
I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
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Enough Good Interesting Not Saint
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
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Church Doctrine Dozen Use
Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody’s lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.
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Century Dragged Eighteenth Middle Technology
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
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Hate Jesus Names
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
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Bored Horse Silence
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe’s oddest countries.
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Country Europe Technology
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I’ve allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
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Allow Go Jobs Letting Politics Sacrifice
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
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Establishment School Thumbs Years
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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Done Life Politician
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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Courage Encouraging Inspirational
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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Born Grows Unjust
Free love is too expensive.
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Expensive Free Love
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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Beads Catholic Rosary
I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn’t my business.
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Business Comprehend Everyone Mentality

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