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on the main page.There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
— David Lloyd George, in Lloyd George, David (1933). "XXIV: Disintegration of the Liberal Party". War Memoirs. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson. p. 740.
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Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.
— Neil Kinnock, speech at the Welsh Labour Party conference, Llandudno, 15 May 1987.
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Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. |
The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
— Roald Dahl, speaking during the mid 1950s
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation.
— Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954)
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The main difference between playing league and union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday.
— Tom David, former Welsh rugby union international, after switching codes.
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Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.
— Dylan Thomas, in Adam, December 1953
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We were four dickheads from Wales. No other dickheads from Wales were making music at that point. And we were kind of pretentious beyond belief. |
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? I spoke a tongue that was passed on To me in the place I happened to be, A place huddled between grey walls Of cloud for at least half the year. — R. S. Thomas, Tares (1961)
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To say it is a dog's breakfast is an insult to the pet food industry.
— Rhodri Morgan, comment on architectural plans for the National Assembly for Wales building.
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I used to say that I spent half my life breaking bones on the rugby field, then the other half putting them back together in the operating theatre.
— J. P. R. Williams, JPR Given The Breaks – My Life In Rugby (2007).
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
— Aneurin Bevan, speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945.
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A fo ben, bid bont. [He who is chief, let him be a bridge.]
— Mabinogion, "Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr" (Jones & Jones, 1989, p. 34)
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
— Sir Henry Morton Stanley, spoken on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
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For me real peace is lying on a river bank in summer with a sprig of grass in my mouth. I have friends who jet off to a luxury hotel. I think, 'How can you enjoy such ghastly luxury?'
— Griff Rhys Jones, quoted by Michael Odell in The Guardian, 5 November 2006.
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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
— Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (1954)
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