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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Barbara Tuchman

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
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
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
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Fighting History Police
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
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Errors Forever Yesterday
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
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Military Peace War
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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Demand Discipline Order

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