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Douglas Hurd

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

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

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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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."
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"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
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"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."
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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
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"We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war."
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"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."
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"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
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"There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War."
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"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."
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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."
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