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

Barbara Tuchman

When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Attention Men Untrustworthy
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
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
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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Alternatives Elements Eras
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Pages Want Writing
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
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
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Humanity
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
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Courage Elude Mistake
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
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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Knighthood Love War

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