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QUIZ: Who said it... Prince Charles or Michael D?

The pair will have a good chinwag next week.
7.00pm, 17 May 2015
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President Higgins state visit to Britain - Day Two

PRINCE CHARLES AND Camilla are coming to town next week for an official State visit.

They will spend time with our head of State, President Michael D Higgins.

Verbosity squared.

“The marginalising of Shakespeare seems to be symptomatic of a general flight from our great literary heritage.”
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Michael D
"I think given half a chance ... the old one-two and the two-step can come in handy."
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"The more you do, the energy comes and the energy that is needed for anything is always found there. "Really, we’re only ever using a fraction of our possibilities. So I am flying along!”
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Michael D
“We do need a sense of urgency in our outlook in the regeneration of industry and enterprise, because otherwise what really worries me is that we are going to become a fourth-rate country, and I don’t want to see that.”
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Michael D
“[I] hope you receive this before some frightful undercover agent stabs me in the left buttock with a poisoned umbrella!”
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Michael D
"To be thus invited to speak to an institution which, over the centuries, has enabled the British people to gradually find their full democratic voice, was a very moving experience."
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“[I and others] wonder what it is about our country, and our society that our language has become so impoverished, so sloppy and so limited; that we have arrived at a wasteland of banality, cliché and casual obscenity.”
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Michael D
“It seems to me so incredibly sad to hear people nowadays denigrating those whose careers are in public service as people having 'jobs for life' or who are somehow ‘wasting tax-payers money’.”
Prince Charles
Michael D
“Be proud to be a decent American — rather than being a wanker whipping up fear.”
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Michael D
"As long as I don’t get covered too much in egg and tomato I’ll be all right.”
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