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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in

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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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 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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History
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. – Anita Desai

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There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides. – Philip Howard

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon

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The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Because I would give it all back to have my health. – David Gest

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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

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Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence. – Attributed to Gene Baylos

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