"My function in life is not to be……" — Bernadette Devlin
"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done."
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Bernadette Devlin
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13 Quotes by Bernadette Devlin
Bernadette Devlin has 13 quotes on this site.
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.…
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I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with…
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice…
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Free love is too expensive.
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the…
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One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the…
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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