"It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million."

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“How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.”

Source : "The correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, Vol. II". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Letter N. 700, 1972.
“If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.”
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.”
“I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.”
“A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.”
“Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.”
“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.”

Source : Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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