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Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Contempt Country Law States United
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
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
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
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
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
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around…. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.
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Atheism Believe Historical
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity

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