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

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" 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. "

" It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. "

" It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure. "

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

" Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach. "

" 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. "

" In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance. "

" 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. "

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

" In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots. "

" All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. "

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

" One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. "

" 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.' "

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

" The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts. "

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

" Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. "

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

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

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

" Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most. "

" 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. "

" The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge. "

" 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. "

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

" None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native. "

" The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. "

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

" Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews. "