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

Barbara Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Cards House Leaving
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
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Breaking Down Gaps Real
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Library Muse Shelter
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
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
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
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing

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