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Barbara Tuchman

Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
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
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
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
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Errors Forever Yesterday
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
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Compromise Power Weakness
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire

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