Jack Lynch Quotes

• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

  Jack Lynch

  Powerful, Mean, Two

  Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

  Jack Lynch

  Jobs, Thinking, Fans

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• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  Jack Lynch

  Government, People, Innocence

  "Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence". www.irishtimes.com. August 14, 1999.

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• There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

  Jack Lynch

  Dictionary

  Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  Jack Lynch

  Police, Accepted, Force

  "Keeping the hawks at bay while retaining control of the party". www.irishtimes.com. October 21, 1999.

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