"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."

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Source : Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.365

Robert Emmet

#Memories Quotes #Men Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.”
“The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.”

Source : 1943 The Two Marshals.
“Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.”
“There's chaos out there and chaos means opportunity.”
“I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
“I was always the smallest guy on the field.”
“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”

Source : 1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.

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