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With Margaret Thatcher as polarizing in death as in life, and Sinn Féin—once the IRA’s political wing—reborn as a respectable party of government, the IRA plot to kill its greatest foe is in danger of becoming myth. It is vital to remember
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“You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.”
― The Damned Utd
― The Damned Utd
“Sir Peter Tapsell: ‘You cannot ask the British Prime Minister to autograph a bottle of table wine. You really cannot.’ ‘It is English,’ I bleated. ‘Non-vintage?’ ‘Er … yes.’ ‘Good God, what is the party coming to?”
― Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries
― Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries
“There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.”
― Red or Dead
― Red or Dead
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent”
― The Atom Station
― The Atom Station
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