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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Barbara Tuchman

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Accepting Calm Supplies
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Always Condition Writer Writing
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Revolution Successful Tyrants
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Book Science Sea Teacher
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Dying Sunset World
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Contempt Country Law States United
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Fighting History Police
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Reading Stupid

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