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

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
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
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.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
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
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Errors Forever Yesterday
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
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.
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Hero Kings Knowing

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