"Grief is the price we pay for love."
-Queen Elizabeth II
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"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.“
-Queen Elizabeth II
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"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
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"What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today."
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"My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim."
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"I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim."
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
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