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I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion. Guy Laliberte
Religion Atheist Experience Police Lost Some Born Horrible Had Catholic Protestant Am Friends Ireland Taste Northern Northern Ireland Formal After English Traveled
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. Harry Johnston
News King Eastern Find He Soon Perhaps Reached Arranged Discovery Send Expedition Northern Asia Far Sea Route Portugal
The easiest way to get into northern Iraq is through Turkey. Husnu Ozyegin
Way Easiest Easiest Way Through Iraq Get Northern Turkey
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country. Ian Beattie
Beautiful Better Weather Country Immensely Would Would-Be Had Beautiful Country New Like Ireland Northern Northern Ireland New Zealand Zealand
Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters. Ian Brown
Soul Lot Huge Northern Manchester
Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world. Isabella Bird
God Religion World Liberty Pride Light Soil Made Sets Other Sunny Charms Gladness Foot Glory Island Thanking Northern May Wanderer Which Again Skies Regretted Lands Sea British
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. Jack Schwartz
Will Situation Military Guerrilla Gaza Security Hopefully Security Measures Involves Occupation Island West West Bank End Northern Bank Urban Warfare Measures British
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. James Callaghan
Injustice Worth Citizen Single Soldier Loss Ireland Irish Northern Northern Ireland Either British
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential. James D. Watson
Success Class Business Innovation Made King Free Think States Willingness Merchant Aristocracy Instead Like Smith Accept Practices Came Controlled Northern Essential Essentially Which Europe Whole United United States Adam Enlightenment
When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic. James Nesbitt
Time Day Great People Sit Nice Lunch Changed Out Security City City Hall See Lawn Outside Students Had Part Come Hall Access How Surrounded Up Ireland Office Northern Northern Ireland Fantastic Workers Belfast Growing Growing Up Now
Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible. James Nesbitt
Politics Great Conflict Win Political Path Decision Example Down Enough Once Great Example Possible Would Follow Over Unthinkable Arms Been Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Just Where Shows
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. James Nesbitt
Kids Troubles Had Countryside Well Idyllic Up Ireland Northern Childhood Northern Ireland Grew Who Many Away
I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly. James Nesbitt
Think Enough Frankly Were Lot Up Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Grew Us Who
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know? James Nesbitt
Me You Know Well Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Treated
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school. James Nesbitt
Life History You Reality School Catholic Learned Protestant Were Ireland Irish Northern Northern Ireland British
For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed. James T. Walsh
Government Time Business People Long Too Running Voice Equal Executive Been Denied Up Ireland Northern Representation Northern Ireland Far Assembly
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. James Welch
Me Language Become Imagination Gave Montana Way Bit About Could Write Writer He Also Permission Hugo Northern Taught Anyone Richard Ear Desire
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. James Weldon Johnson
Love Justice Charity People Will Sense White Philanthropy Way Through Abstract Sort His Northern Race Elevation Assist
In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me. Jeff Gordon
Me Fans Cheer California Northern Northern California Really
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else. Jennifer Donnelly
You Light Amazing Matter Matters Teenage Else Someone Something Take Make Readers Been Heard Northern Teachers Gratifying Deeply
Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland. Jeremy Corbyn
Political Situation Military Solution Had Simply Contact Maintained Fein Sinn Sinn Fein Ireland Northern Quite Northern Ireland Believed
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. Jerry Saltz
Art Me Mother Word Our Once Month Hated Never Institute Came Chicago Up Northern Where Suburb Dragged
I'm very much a hippie from Northern California. Jessica Chastain
California Hippie Very Northern Northern California Much
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. Jessie Ware
Made Synagogue Everyone Immigrant He Cry Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Grandfather Sang Who Apparently Lived
Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity. Jo Cox
Commitment Prosperity Drive Fools Power Building Resources Stripping Cities Worthy Folk About Deliver Simultaneously Powerhouse Talk Yorkshire Northern While Regions Them Cuts Compatible Growth
I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way. Joan Allen
Life Mother Big Gone Other Nursing Way See Pretty Having Various Facility Area Through Had Dementia Couple She Got Firsthand Years Lot Disease Northern Patients Big Way Stages Little Illinois Exposure Hometown Her Last
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