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I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.


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BEN PIERCE A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue ch...
BEN PIERCE People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.
BEN PIERCE What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to ...
BEN PIERCE Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation,...
BEN PIERCE Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
PIERCE BROWN I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b...
ANTONIO PIERCE He's revived. He's coming back with a chip on his shoulder.
ANTONIO PIERCE maybe the smartest player we have.
ANTONIO PIERCE Jay's my boy ... He's saved our butt three or four times,
ANTONIO PIERCE That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE We played those guys as tough as anybody at their place. We put ourselves in a position to win, and ...
ANTONIO PIERCE When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We ha...
ANTONIO PIERCE We knock those guys off next week, we might not have the best record in the N.F.C., but we'd have th...
ANTONIO PIERCE It felt real good, ... Just to go out and prove that I can do it week in and week out. Not just to t...
ANTONIO PIERCE The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i...
CHARLIE PIERCE A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absu...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,...
CHARLIE PIERCE Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere ...
MARY PIERCE The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE