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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
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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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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.
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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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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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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
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