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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. Oscar Wilde
Wise People Other Well Contradict Themselves Bred
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde
Unfair Unbearable About Something Brute Brute Force Force Intellect Hitting Quite Stand Use Reason Below
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde
Life Art Mirrors Really Spectator
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. Oscar Wilde
Art Good People Bad People Good People Imagination Bad Variety Point Point Of View Colour Studies Stir Represent View Strangeness Reason Fascinating
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde
Society Would Would-Be Only Civilized Could Talk How Irish Listen Quite Teach English Here
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Ugly Will Object Look Conditions Certain
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. Seamus Heaney
Hope You Out Hopes Dashed Maintained Even Started
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. Sean Brady
Memories Mistakes Past Our Possibilities Wounded Tension Between Always Past Mistakes Aspire
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. Sean O'Casey
Art Gay Song Guardian Dance Every Other Side Ought Born Angels Joyce Terrible Devotion Him His Austerity Human Lad Two
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state. Spike Milligan
Depression You People Challenge Think Other State About Something Wretched Contagious Idea Odd Very Persistent Regard Irritating Which Depressed Unique
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness. Spike Milligan
Depression Having More Had Well Disease Realized Really Episodes Illness Kept
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. Tim O'Reilly
Technology Opportunities Job New Does New Opportunities New Technology Done Want Customers Create
I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever. Bobby Sands
Broken Man People Will Logic Torture One-Man Spirit Never Am Amazed Nor Refused Eight After Breaking Succeeded Centuries Who Even Conquered Ever British
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands
Freedom Ghetto Spirit Only Boy Revolutionary Nationalist Repression Creates Working-Class
The job of art is to chase ugliness away. Bono
Art Job Chase Ugliness Away
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan
Death Me Back Absence Could Said Dublin Came Shoot Sentenced
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. Brendan Behan
Money Sex Free Big Costs Between Big Difference Lot Difference Less
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. Brendan Behan
Good Men Lost Hell Sides Good Men Both Both Sides Make Does Were Left Difference Right
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. C. S. Lewis
Truth Reflect Think Imagination Way All Things Least Heavenly Things
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. C. S. Lewis
Adversity Prosperity Weather Long Devil Monotonous Excellent Years Dull Campaigning Middle-Aged
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. Daniel O'Connell
Nothing Morally Morally Wrong Wrong Politically Which Right
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. Eamon de Valera
Strong Indeed Weak Always Just Rewards Justly Acting Hard
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. Edmund Burke
God Man Also Ever
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen
Fate Rat Like Eagle Creeps
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. Frank Delaney
Build Our Ancestors Reconnect Identities Understand Stories
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! George Bernard Shaw
Sex Advice About Take He Knows Anything Should Pope Why
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