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Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.

Barbara Tuchman

To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Book Order Original Thought
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Confronted Government Menace Smash
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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Age Conflict Problem
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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Authority Common Should
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print

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