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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Barbara Tuchman

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
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
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
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
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Folly Men Power
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Breaking Down Gaps Real
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
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Humanity Print
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Library Muse Shelter
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Firsts Garment Legitimacy
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

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