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To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Barbara Tuchman

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
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
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Century Emotion Pain
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Banker Companion Erect Lighthouse Magician Sea Teacher
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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Government Periods Pursuit
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
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
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
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 fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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History Sea War
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
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

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

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