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> [Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/individual-lives-remind-us-that-there-is-something-called-a-common/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

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## More by Margaret MacMillan

> [Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/some-might-argue-humans-are-hard-wired-to-fight-i-don-t-agree-we-are/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/i-wish-we-could-see-understanding-the-first-world-war-as-a-european/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/theodore-roosevelt-s-policy-to-build-a-two-ocean-navy-confirmed-that/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/individual-lives-remind-us-that-there-is-something-called-a-common/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/the-1898-annexation-of-the-hawaiian-islands-merely-formally/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [“There are only two perfectly useless things in the world,” he quipped. “One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/there-are-only-two-perfectly-useless-things-in-the-world-he-quipped/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/nationalist-movements-often-overlapped-with-economic-and-class-issues/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/how-curious-that-such-an-outsize-man-in-physique-as-well-as/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/part-of-nietzsche-s-appeal-was-that-it-was-easy-to-read-a-great-deal/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/the-great-war-was-nobody-s-fault-or-everybody-s/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/if-we-do-not-as-historians-write-the-history-of-great-events-as-well/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/many-in-the-english-speaking-world-came-to-agree-with-the-germans/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/women-are-interested-in-relationships-and-how-other-societies-manage/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/managing-the-relationship-with-a-giant-neighbour-has-been-central-to/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

> [I like to think I'm a recovering historian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-macmillan/i-like-to-think-i-m-a-recovering-historian/)

[Margaret MacMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-macmillan/)

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