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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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.Douglas Hurd
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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Neither the Iraqi people, nor other Arab governments nor indeed Islamic fundamentalists have any reason to admire or trust Saddam Hussein.
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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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