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Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman

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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around…. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.
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Atheism Believe Historical
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
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
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
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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Country Money More Prevail Property
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs
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

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