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" One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else. "

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" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. "

" In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance. "

" There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. "

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

" Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War. "

" It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England. "

" I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts. "

" Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice. "

" Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side. "

" 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 first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail. "

" Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe. "

" I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action. "

" For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own. "

" The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. "

" So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. "

" The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state. "

" All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. "

" Poland is the natural bridge between East and West. "

" The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc. "

" I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit. "

" The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact. "

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

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

" Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off. "

" Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe. "

" Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. "

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

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