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Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

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Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

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Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

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Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

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Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

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Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

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For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

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The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.

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All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

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The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1939

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