"I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace."

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Source : Albert Reynolds (2009). “Albert Reynolds: My Autobiography”, p.356, Random House

Albert Reynolds

“I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.”
“I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.”
“The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.”

Source : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230
“I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.”
“We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.”
“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
“When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.”
“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”

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