"I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft."

-- Bertie Ahern

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“A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.”
“Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.”
“August is a wicked month.”
“The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'oÃ¹ dÃ©coulent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identitÃ©, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensÃ©e; il en dÃ©coule les normes logiques qui rÃ©gissent la pensÃ©e dans le domaine de la science.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13
“Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.”
“Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.”
“Justice will prevail!”

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