Jack Lynch quotes
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“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.”
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“It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.”
-- Jack LynchSource : "Keeping the hawks at bay while retaining control of the party". www.irishtimes.com. October 21, 1999.
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“There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.”
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“A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.”
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“The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.”
-- Jack LynchSource : "Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence". www.irishtimes.com. August 14, 1999.
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“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”
-- Jack LynchSource : Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.”
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