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

Barbara Tuchman

Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
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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Book Science Sea Teacher
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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Belief Century Church
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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
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
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all the passions.” Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise.
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Exercise Passion Successful
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
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
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
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
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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History Past Tree

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