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| Michael Collins
I tell you this - early this morning I signed my death warrant. Notes: after signing a treaty on December 6, 1921 with England creating the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth. He was later assassinated by partisans unhappy with the deal. |
| Tom Hayden
"I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on." |
| John F. Kennedy
If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. Notes: during a 1963 visit to Ireland |
| John Millington Synge
"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned...for he will go out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we only be drownded now and again." Notes: The Aran Islands |
| C. S. Lewis
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. |
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