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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Barbara Tuchman

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
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
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Folly Men Power
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Accepting Calm Supplies
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
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
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
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
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Belief Friendship Roots
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
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 Reading Stupid
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self

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