Phrase by 'Norman Davies'
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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.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianLife , Good , Death , Celebrate
I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianChildren , Men , Women , Faith
Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianGreat , History , Painting , Satisfied
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianPeople , Father , Death , King
Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianJustice , Law , Europe , Gang
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianAny , Salt , Happen , Worth
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianPath , Still , Anyone , Standing
Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianEverything , Nothing , Moving , Direction
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianHistory , Today , Mental , Winners
Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side.
Author: Norman Davies - British HistorianEveryone , Side , Enemies , Smiling
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