I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had … - Robert Winston

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It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God.

Robert Winston

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins. ' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

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