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“Na pitanje tko čini "grupu investitora" odgovora nije bilo. Na pitanje jesu li već radili neke projekte i koje, odgovorili su da jesu, ali da ne mogu reći koje. Razgovor je tekao u ugodnoj atmosferi: vidjelo se da su očekivali rabijatne tipove, a ne četvorku koja postavlja suvisla pitanja na engleskom. Pri kraju razgovora Treasure je pitao koji je odnos Našeg Hajduka i Torcide, na što mu je odgovoreno da je, slikovito rečeno, Toricida IRA, a Naš Hajduk Sinn Fein. Britanac je na to vidljivo negodovao.”

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Book:Naš Hajduk
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“The body is a fantastic machine,’ Hughes told Mackers in one of his Boston College interviews, recounting the grueling sequence of a hunger strike. ‘It’ll eat off all the fat tissue first, then it starts eating away at the muscle, to keep your brain alive.’ Long after Hughes and Price called an end to their strikes and attempted to reintegrate into society, the nursed old grudges and endlessly replayed their worst wartime abominations. In a sense, they never stopped devouring themselves.”

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Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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“Indeed, it could occasionally seem that support for the armed struggle was more fervent in Boston or Chicago than it was in Belfast or Derry. The romantic idyll of a revolutionary movement is easier to sustain when there is no danger that one's own family members might get blown to pieces on a trip to the grocery store. Some people in Ireland looked askance at the "plastic Paddies" who urged bloody war in Ulster from the safe distance of America.”

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Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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“Incluso aunque nuestros hombres y sus generales distaban de ser los mismos que cuando el duque de Alba y Alejandro Farnesio, los soldados españoles continuaron siendo por algún tiempo la pesadilla de Europa; los mismos que habían capturado a un rey francés en Pavía, vencido en San Quintín, saqueado Roma y Amberes, tomado Amiens y Ostende, matado diez mil enemigos en el asalto de Jemmigen, ocho mil en Maastrich y nueve mil en La Esclusa, peleando al arma blanca con el agua hasta la cintura. Éramos la ira de Dios.”

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Book:The Sun Over Breda
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“«La ira, dice Aristóteles, es necesaria; de nada se triunfa sin ella, si no llena al alma, si no calienta al corazón; debe, pues, servirnos, no como jefe, sino como soldado». Esto es falso. Porque si escucha a la razón y se deja conducir a donde la llevan, ya no es ira, cuyo carácter propio es la rebelión. Si resiste, si arrastrada por sus caprichos y presunción no se detiene cuando se la manda, es para el alma un instrumento tan inútil como el soldado que no obedece a la señal de retirada. Si pues soporta que se le imponga freno, necesario es darla otro nombre, porque deja de ser ira, que solamente comprendo como violenta e indomable; si no lo soporta, es perniciosa y no puede contarse entre los auxiliares. Luego o no es ira o es inútil”

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Book:On Anger
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“«La ira, dices, es útil si es moderada». Antes debes decir si por su propia naturaleza es útil, pero si es rebelde a la autoridad y a la razón, lo único que se consigue moderándola es que cuanto menos poderosa sea, perjudique menos. Luego una pasión moderada no es otra cosa que un mal moderado. XI. «Pero contra los enemigos, dicen, la ira es necesaria». Nunca lo es menos: en la guerra no deben ser los movimientos desordenados, sino arreglados y”

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Book:On Anger
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“Sometimes it felt as if they spent more nights on the floor than in their beds. Lying awake, staring at the ceiling, Michael would listen to the sounds of bullets ricocheting off the concrete outside. It was a mad life. But as the anarchy persisted from one month to the next, it became the only life he knew.”

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Book:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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“The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.”

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Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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“Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.”

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Author:Yip Harburg
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“I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).”

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Author:Elvis Costello
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