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— Daniel Patrick Moynihan"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."
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The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
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