Ireland/culture/sport

Famous quotes containing the words ireland, culture and/or sport:

    Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...
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    I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.
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