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

Barbara Tuchman

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
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
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
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
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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History Past Tree
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.
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Disaster Facts Records
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Artist Book Fiction Reason
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
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
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

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