"Norman Stone" is a British academic, historian, author and is currently a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is a former Professor at the University of Oxford, Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and adviser to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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You can't win in Germany unless you knock them out.

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I'm done. I'm tired of boxing and last week's bad decision was the last straw. I'm sorry if my actions sometimes upset people.

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Tolkien thought there were too many elements that clashed: a Father Christmas and an evil witch, talking animals and children. He did not like allegory and thought Lewis's book was too pushy in a Christian sense.

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It's not as bad as it seems. His head's big as a Volkswagen . Johnny can't miss that head.

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What's the problem? Everybody says that when they come over here. What's the problem?

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Some people may see it as trading insults.

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If I knew that we never would have come over here.

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Back in America, you hear this sort of stuff -- if you don't knock out a guy in Germany, you get robbed. It was an awful, awful decision.

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