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We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment. -- Margaret Macmillan
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IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening. -- Margaret Macmillan
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China. The Kaiser had temporarily -- Margaret Macmillan
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The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword! -- Margaret Macmillan
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What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border. -- Margaret Macmillan
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The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. -- Margaret Macmillan
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In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order. -- Margaret Macmillan
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History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. -- Margaret Macmillan
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British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests. -- Margaret Macmillan
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As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road. -- Margaret Macmillan
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3053Geography also gave Russia a rich choice of potential enemies. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Wilson agreed reluctantly to their attempts: I don't much like to make a compromise with people who aren't reasonable. They will always believe that, by persisting in their claims, they will be able to obtain more. -- Margaret Macmillan
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Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire. -- Margaret Macmillan
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But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid. -- Margaret Macmillan