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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway. Dylan Moran

Me People Walk Some People Eye Some Something Small Poking Like Around Very Children Anyway Aware Grumpy

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house. Dylan Moran

People Big Unless Spend Give Hours House Talking Female Leaving Very Irish Five Irish People Person Doorway Little Then

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality. Fionnula Flanagan

Funny Women Reality Strong Face Think Incredibly Horses Devastating Part Most Witty Women Are Irish Optimistic Loyal Bright

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. George Berkeley

Truth Game Truth Is Few Cry

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw

Vote Women Men Long Clever Willing Attractive Govern Want

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. George Bernard Shaw

Life You Yourself Organization Big Society Benefit Our Alive We Cannot More Purpose Consume Clearly Perhaps Because Does Very Cannot Little Then Us Much Producing Use Your Keeping

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. George Bernard Shaw

Animals Thoroughly Only Am Human Afraid Human Beings Which Beings

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw

Man Mind Men One-Man Ten Beat Knows Always Who

Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw

Music Hell Musical Amateur Hell Is Full

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes Minority Wrong Majority Always Right

My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw

Failure Reputation Every Grows

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. George Bernard Shaw

Work Humorous Genuinely Intellectual

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction. George Best

Love Respect Love Is Mutual Mutual Respect About Attraction Apart

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. George Boole

A thing well done is worth doing. Hugh Leonard

Worth Well Well Done Doing Done Thing

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. John Banville

Light Writers Push Nocturnal Blinds Us Creatures Shy

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. John Banville

Failure Doubt Everything Self-Doubt Full

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. John Boyle O'Reilly

Politics Time You Man Justice Change Inferiority Will Black Men Example Long White Skin Illustration Unjust Mark Out Must Steal Conceited Qualities Opinion Equity Legislate Cannot Social Them Prejudiced Ignorant Teaching Based

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity. John Boyle O'Reilly

Word Right Word Rarity Spoken Precious Right

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