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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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Poison Running War
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
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Century Emotion Pain
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Heard Presumption Reason
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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History Sea War
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Eradicable Matter Sex Sin
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
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
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government

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