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Quote by Barbara Tuchman
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so m

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. – Barbara Tuchman

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. – Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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I dont have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history Im not that kind of person. – Ang Lee

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