Bertie Ahern Quotes
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
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There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
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Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
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Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.
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I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.
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Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.
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The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
