Margaret MacMillan quotes

Margaret MacMillan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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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“History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.”
-- Margaret MacMillan

Source : Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

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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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