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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Barbara Tuchman

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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
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
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
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
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
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
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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