"David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden)."

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Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press

David Cannadine

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“I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods”
“In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.”
“I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.”
“Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.”
“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
“The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.”
“The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.”

Source : "Society: Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor, says OECD". José Ángel Gurría's remarks during the launching of a new 2011 OECD report "Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising", www.oecd.org. December 5, 2011.
“Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.”

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