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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.

Barbara Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Comfort Military Mind
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Banker Companion Erect Lighthouse Magician Sea Teacher
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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Moral Reluctance Seems
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
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Accepting Calm Supplies
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Revolution Successful Tyrants
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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Belief Century Church
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Authority Common Should

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.

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