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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

Barbara Tuchman

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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Humanity Ideas Years
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Power Strong Thinking
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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Government Periods Pursuit
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
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 writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Cards House Leaving

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

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