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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Barbara Tuchman

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Communication Quality
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 Reading Stupid
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
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Eyebrows Female Habit
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Mean Power Secret
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
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Europe War World
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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Country Money More Prevail Property
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing

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