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Barbara Amiel Quotes: Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
         

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.


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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.



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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.



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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.



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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.



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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.



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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.



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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.



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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.





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