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Why should films not be used for Irish-Ireland purposes and for the proper appreciation of scenery and beauty?

— Timothy Quill Irish Independent (1943)

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The working men of Ireland had always stood by their priests when there was a price on their heads. They have neither room nor scope for Fascism or Communism.

The Kerryman (1937)

The Pope (Pius XI) was a man before his time, because today, unfortunately, very few of the leaders of the world seemed disposed to accept the advice as fully as the world might accept it.

The Cork Examiner (1939)

Work, but use your head as well as your hands, trust in God and He will never let you down.

The Cork Examiner (1955)

The rising prices and scarcity of some articles of food shows that there is no control of profits.

Irish Press (1941)

The County Council has been described as a council of tinkers, but I wish to turn it into a council of thinkers.

The Southern Star (1935)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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