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• In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I…
• The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
• I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
• Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…
• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me…
• The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that…
• They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of…

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