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"People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."
"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany."
"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."
"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."
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