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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. – Brendan Behan

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Its not that the Irish are cynical. Its rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. – Brendan Behan

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respect
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Brendan Behan

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Death
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldnt at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of whats going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone. – Nancy Kerrigan

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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. – Henry David Thoreau

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alone

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. – John Naisbitt

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. – Baruch Spinoza

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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. – Joseph Lancaster

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Your spirit is the true shield. – Morihei Ueshiba

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