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Language makes infinite use of finite media. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced. ↗

— Brit Hume

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When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing. ↗

— Brit Hume

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. ↗

— John Hume

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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination. ↗

— John Hume

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At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years. ↗

— John Hume

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The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity. ↗

— John Hume

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