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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. — Eric Bogosian

The United Kingdom is nearing its end. — Norman Davies

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it. — Norman Davies

I always think better when I am being shot at. — Philippa Ballantine

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol. — Carla Gallo

Fair-minded people 'get in the game' rather than criticizing from the sidelines. — Frank Sonnenberg

Also in 1492, and also for the first time, the 'new Constantinople - Moscow' may have been given its more familiar label of 'the Third Rome'. — Norman Davies

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult. — A. C. Bradley

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature ... — Norman Davies

By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe. — Norman Davies

It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen. — Ted Cruz

We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" ... and the death of post-modernism. — Norman Davies

Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'. — Norman Davies

wars can be traced to a scuffle between a man and a boy, both of whom summon aid to their respective sides. — Norman Davies

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests. — Kyle Kinane

The Muslim Era of Hegira, which marks the flight of the Prophet from Mecca, corresponds to Friday, 16 July AD 622. — Norman Davies

An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. — Norman Davies

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. — Norman Davies

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor. — Rob Zombie

Grain prices in France, for example, where the supply of coin was relatively scarce, were over seven times higher in 1600 than in 1500. — Norman Davies

Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot. — Norman Davies

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. — Tad Williams

*NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man. — Norman Davies

As from the 1490s, the double-headed eagle began to appear as the symbol of state in Moscow as in Vienna, as indeed in Constantinople. — Norman Davies

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely. — Norman Davies

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis. — Norman Davies

And I realized that leaving wouldn't be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. — Ransom Riggs