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" It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage. "

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" The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history. "

" There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. "

" Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. "

" All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry. "

" You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. "

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" Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole. "

" As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off. "

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" I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. "

" I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. "

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" We would never comment on private correspondence. "

" I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. "

" Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. "

" As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me. "

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" Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth. "

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" For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had. "