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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."
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"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour."

"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."

"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."

"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake."

"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."

"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."

"People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance."

"Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe."

"We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past."
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