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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
- Feasible
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- Nov 07, 2020
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
- Economic Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History provides no precise guidelines.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020