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Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Barbara Tuchman

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Contempt Country Law States United
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.
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Art Exercise Imagination
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
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Compromise Power Weakness
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
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Book Order Original Thought
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
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Europe War World
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
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Hindsight Midst War
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
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Belief Friendship Roots
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
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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Conflict Differences Planets
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years

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