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.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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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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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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One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
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Completeness is rare in history.
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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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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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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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