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Quote by Brendan Behan
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society exc

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. – Brendan Behan

Other quotes by Brendan Behan

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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Brendan Behan
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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

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Death
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Brendan Behan
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. – Brendan Behan

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Marriage
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Food
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If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare

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Food

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. Its a very particular part of the country. – Sela Ward

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Food

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. – Terry Riley

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Food

Strawberries are the angels of the earth — innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. – Terri Guillemets

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Food

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. – Ernest Hemingway

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communication

Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

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Insects

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. – Timothy Geithner

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Money

One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football. – Marty Ragaway

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Inflation