Constance Markievicz quotes
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“Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.”
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“Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
-- Constance MarkieviczSource : "Sarah Palin talks waterboarding, guns at NRA convention". Sarah Palin's speech at the National Rifle Association's annual convention, www.cbsnews.com. April 26, 2014.
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“I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.”
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“But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.”
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
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Source : Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44
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Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial
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