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Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Humanity Print
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Decision Faces Government
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
Completeness is rare in history.
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Completeness History Rare
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Challenges Money Waiting
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Power Strong Thinking
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
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Art Exercise Imagination
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Degrees Taken Writing
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Humanity
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Authority Common Should
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Reading Stupid

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