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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Barbara Tuchman

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
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Artist Book Fiction Reason
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.
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Essentials Sound Writing
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
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
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
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.
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Fighting History Police
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
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
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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Attention Men Untrustworthy
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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Demand Discipline Order

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