"Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict."

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Eamon de Valera

#War Quotes #Danger Quotes #Combination Quotes

“The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.”

Source : "Juliana Hatfield Says Goodbye To The Stage, Hello To Art School". Interview with MiddleMojo.com, middlemojo.com.
“I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out,”
“I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.”
“I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.”
“I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.”
“I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.”
“The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.”

Source : "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.
“I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.”

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