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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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Government
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

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History
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This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts. – Haile Gebrselassie

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History

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger

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History

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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History

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. – Charles Angoff

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History

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Im not one aspect of the human experience – none of us is. – Jennifer Aniston

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Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted. – Ray Comfort

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I just smile. And they – my opponents dont like it when I smile at them. They think Im playing or something. But – like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes Ill be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them. – RauShee Warren

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When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” – Author Unknown

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