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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.

Bernadette Devlin

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
BERNADETTE DEVLIN

Done Life Politician
Free love is too expensive.
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Expensive Free Love
I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.
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Easy Imagine Thinking
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.
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Confined Country Prejudice Racism
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
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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Born Grows Unjust
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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Hippie Inspirational Women
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
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
The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.
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Ireland Singers Song
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
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
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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Beads Catholic Rosary
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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Children Diversity Justice
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
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

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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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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