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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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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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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. – Herbert Hoover

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History

Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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History

History balances the frustration of “how far we have to go” with the satisfaction of “how far we have come.” It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, thats its not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain –if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. – Slobodan Milosevic

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A successful marriage isnt necessarily one that lasts until youre dead. – Ellen Barkin

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