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The east side of the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin-Mitte, facing the river Spree, during the blue hour
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President

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