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I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

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I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.

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American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

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I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

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I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

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I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.

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When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

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For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: January 2nd, 1948

Died: August 6th, 2010

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