Michael Collins Irish Leader/first D%c3%a1il

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    I wonder if it’s ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D’ya suppose it’s ethical even if you prove that he didn’t commit a crime? I’m not much on rear window ethics.
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    And thou, thou rich-haired youth of morn,
    And all thy subject life was born!
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    Concurring hands divide

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    that when bleached by Irish weather
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    The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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