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" It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. "

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" The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. "

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" Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. "

" History is very much bound up in family experience. "

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" The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully. "

" There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. "

" It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman. "

" Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking. "

" The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. "

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" States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing. "

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" I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland. "

" I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent. "

" Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. "

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" Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. "

" Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible. "

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" One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history. "

" History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. "

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" Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another. "

" In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. "

" Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated. "