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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Barbara Tuchman

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
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
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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Moral Reluctance Seems
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
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Accepting Calm Supplies
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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Age Conflict Problem
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 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
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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Demand Discipline Order
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
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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry

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