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He is very handsome and leaves a good impression. He is quite cultured, but you sense Western influence on his upbringing.
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Vyacheslav Molotov, as quoted in Vladimir Dedijer (1953) Tito Speaks: His Self Portrait and Struggle with Stalin, (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 313)

 

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That for which Christianity has striven through eighteen-hundred years is specifically to produce the cultured person, who is the fairest flower and richest unfolding of the Christian life. The essentially Christian is not something historically concluded that enviously would be able to judge whether the cultured person is Christian. On the contrary, the cultured person provides the criterion and thereby contributes to the exaltation of the doctrine that admittedly began as a village affair (paganism) but now through the cultured has gained admittance to circles where tone, manners, elegance, wit, intellect are reconciled with their vanishing opposite. But just as the essentially Christian is not concluded in the past, so also it is not concluded in the present moment either but has the future open and can still become what it is to be.

 

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