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"The size of a deterrent force must be related to the value to an enemy of the prize being protected. For example, suppose - I repeat, suppose - Russian leaders were prepared to sacrifice half their country in exchange for the removal of the USA from the competitive scene. Then, for the American deterrent to be usable, it would have to be demonstrably capable of destroying far more than half Russia in retaliation. But Russia would not be prepared to accept anything like the same damage in exchange for the removal of the United Kingdom. Therefore, a much smaller retaliatory force can give as much or greater security than the USA achieve with their vast nuclear capability."

"One of the great modern philosophers of beauty, Immanuel Kant, spoke of the joy we take in the Beautiful as 'disinterested delight'. The animation of the Beautiful is so immediate and fulfilling that we simply enjoy it for itself; it never occurs to us to ask what purpose it serves."

"We were created to be creators."

"It is ironic that so often we continue to live like paupers though our inheritance of spirit is so vast."

"In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime's work."

"O reader, deem me not a sham, For I in purple earnest am!"

"I do not care for men To point with pride at me; A model citizen I do not wish to be."

"Could the Resurrection be I had wished it but for Thee For though all things rose changed and new Thou wouldst rise unchanged and true And cash at once my I.O.U."

"Other Bards I envy not — Room there is for all, God wot — All I ask is room for me On the top branch of the tree."

"The Missionary labours With zeal, and pious art, And rice, and cabin biscuit, In hope to change his heart;And dear old British ladies The Lord would fain cajole, And humbly crave that He will save This poor old savage soul."

"I learnt the language of the birds, A new St. Francis I would be; But, when I understood their words — The birds were preaching unto me."

"Long ago I did discover It was fine to be a lover, But the heartache and the worry spoil the game: Now I think, like an old vandal, That the game's not worth the candle— And I know some other vandals think the same."

"I do not crave the boon Of Immortality; I do not want the moon, Nor yet the rainbow's key.I do not yearn for wings, Or fins to swim the sea; I merely want the things That are not good for me."

"The narrow, thorny path he trod. "Enter into My joy," said God. The sad ascetic shook his head; "I've lost all taste for joy," he said."

"When 'the little folk' meet by the red rowan tree The dance shall be stayed in the ring on the plot While they twine in his green Irish isle of the sea The wreath we forgot."

"There's rest and peace in plenty here, and eggs and milk to spare; The scenery is calm and sane, and wholesome is the air; The folk are kind, the cows behave like cousins unto me ... But please the Lord, on Monday morn, I'm leaving Arcady."

"A Book of Sermons underneath the Bough, A Bag of Buns, some ginger-ale, and Thou Preaching beside me in the wilderness — The wilderness were Paradise enow!"

"Must we all in grovel wallow Like to bisons in a bog — Must we call him an Apollo If he is not quite a hog?"

"The parson said: "Your sinful Past Will make for you a fiery rod." I smiled, and thought upon the vast Amused indifference of God."

"Ah apple caused man's fall, as some believe; But that old Snake, malevolently wise, A deadlier snare set when he left to Eve His tongue of honey and mesmeric eyes."

"Six days he does no work, and The seventh takes for rest."

"I make or mar. My daring hand Explores the entrails of the land, And finds, beneath a greasy hat, An Austral Homer at Cow Flat."

"If beings of Mythology Could live at my commands I'd choose to be, Who had a hundred hands: And every hand of mine Would hold a pint of wine."

"I'd sooner talk to a man than a woman any day. Ten minutes exhausts them."

"Life is a web with many broken ends: Then why, O friend, be sad? Good is not near so good as it pretends; Bad is not half so bad."

"When I hear a politician Speak of honours and position, And the time to come when he will sit on high, Then I feel a sovran pity For this species of banditti, Raising trouble while the golden time goes by."

"Here I can sit at ease on days of rain, And read my Rabelais and my Montaigne, Self-centred as a solitary star That has no satellites its peace to mar. Society salutes me with salaam, For I am single — thank the Lord I am!"

"You always have to be confident in your own ability."

"You should be able to feel comfortable in your own country."

"We want kids to come watch us, especially young girls now that we are visible to them. And they can see that they can become professional football players and represent their country and play for their favourite clubs."

"One of my favourite things about sport is that it brings people together, it gives people a sense of belonging, and it fills them with great pride and passion."

"Make everything get-at-able"

"Many countries seem to be completely abandoning the idea that we have some control over this (SARS-CoV-2) virus. We seem to be very much caught in the headlines that there is nothing we can do, it's inevitable that we will going to see these waves and it's inevitable that hospitals will fill up and inevitable that the graveyards are going to fill up. It's not inevitable, it can be stopped, but it's going to take yet another effort from communities that are exhausted."

"Looking back to the earliest days of the history of the known world, we find that the first linguistic records belong to the people under consideration, and date back to that far distant cycle of time known as the Aryan civilization. Beyond history we cannot go; but the monuments and cave temples of India, according to the testimony of archaeologists, all point to a time so far beyond the scant history at our disposal, that in the examination of such matters our greatest knowledge is dwarfed into enfantile nothingness - our age and era are but the swaddling clothes of the child; our manhood that of the infant in the arms of the eternity of time."

"People who in their ignorance disdain the wisdom of ancient races forget that the great past of India contained secrets of life and philosophy that following civilizations could not controvert, but were forced to accept. For instance, it has been demonstrated that the ancient Hindus understood the precession of the equinoxes and made the calculation that it [a complete cycle] took place once in every 25,870 years. The observation and mathematical precision necessary to establish such a theory has been the wonder and admiration of modem astronomers. They, with their modem knowledge and up- to-date instruments, are still quarrelling among themselves as to whether the precession, the most important feature in astronomy, takes place every 25,870 years or every 24,500 years. The majority believes that the Hindus made no mistakes, but how they arrived at such a calculation is as great a mystery as the origin of life itself."

"To consider the origin of this Science, we must take our thoughts back to the earliest days of the world's history, and further more to the consideration of a people the oldest of all, yet one that has survived, and who are today as characteristic and as full of individuality as they were when thousands of years ago the first records of history were written."

"I allude to those children of the East, the Hindus, a people whose philosophy and wisdom are every day being more and more revived."

"Long before Rome or Greece or Israel was even heard of, the mountains of India point back to an age, of learning beyond, and still beyond. From the astronomical calculations that the figures in the Ir temples represent, it has been estimated that the Hindu understood the Precession of the Equinoxes centuries before the Christian era."

"The least that you expect from an analyst is that they have an opinion. Neither Duignan or Brennan offered this on The Sunday Game."

"Brennan: Hope you get used to that cell you're in.. Six-by-six, not much room to move around in. Colleague: With a big black person. Brennan: With a big black fella there. Colleague: He might like your haircut. Brennan: All he'll want is his bit, boy, up the Gary Glitter."

"Colleague: When you go to Mountjoy, you'll be a small man, that's for sure. Those are fucking real men in there. Brennan: Hardened men, boy, that are in there seven or eight years. Bent over, boy, and have had soap shoved up the cheeks of their arse. Take it like a man. Someone paying lad packets of smokes to protect him. Your future is looking bleak. Brennan: Wait until you see lads who are there for 10 or 12 years. They will take a shine to you. I don't know, your future is looking bleak."

"That man would die for us, and we'd die for him."

"For most people, Davy Fitz is the wide-eyed caricature we see during a season of Sundays on the sideline, as Bulfin says, 'giving grief to the linesman and taking grief off the fourth official'."

"He wouldn't really be up with what's going on in the GAA world, in my view. My honest opinion is I feel a bit sorry for him. Ger isn't involved with any clubs. He hasn't been involved with anyone since he went to Galway and did not have a good time. He actually couldn't read a game. If you read any of his articles, he can't read the game. He doesn't see what is going on. I don't hate Ger Loughnane. I feel sorry for him. Because every single week he is having a cut at someone. It'll be me today and trust me, it'll be someone else again in a few weeks, just look at the way he writes... I remember the night I asked him to present medals to the team [managed to the Liam MacCarthy Cup by Fitzgerald] in 2013, he actually said to them he did not rate them a good team until they won a second one, which I thought was a very nasty thing to say to them. Before we played Galway in 2015, the things he said about them were unreal, he gave them so much motivation. I remember a member of the Galway management team telling me only a year or two ago that Ger gave them so much motivation, they had things up in their dresssing room. That tells its own story about Ger Loughnane. The only one who is 'me, me, me' is Ger Loughnane."

"At that meeting, Muskerry divisional board delegate John Crean had expressed concern regarding a character reference Cusack provided for Tom Humphries during the 2017 trial in which the former journalist was convicted of the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child."

"He's an introverted character and he's exceptionally shy. He doesn't really want the limelight - he's not that sort of character. He's private and shy and most people don't see that."

"I see other sports right, and I like sports, I like all sports, but I see other sports that do not match the hand-eye co-ordination and I see some things being done and it's almost 'stop the world here because did you see the skill.'"

"a number of the executive members were of the view that he shouldn't be offered a new term on the back of what he said."

"The last point I'll make, right, as, as I'm on it, 'cause I think it's often in my mind, I actually believe that type of, you know, accusation of disrespecting the traditions of the games, I actually think it's part of the last remnants of British culture on these islands."

"The least that you expect from an analyst is that they have an opinion. Neither Duignan or Brennan offered this on The Sunday Game."