"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

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"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

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