"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
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"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.“
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
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