"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right."
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"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?“
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