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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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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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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. – Barbara Tuchman

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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. – Gertrude Stein

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Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

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