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"What about you?"
"I would like to see a united Ireland, but I haven't decided the best way to go about it yet."
"I feel sorry for it."
"What?"
"Ireland. It's like a child. It's only concerned with the past and the present. The future has ceased to exist for it."

— Bernard MacLaverty Cal (1983)

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A bird's-eye view does not see the truth.

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"I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye."

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