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I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.

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Wolfgang Schauble
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 18
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My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.
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