“religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.”

—  Bono

CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

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