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

Barbara Tuchman

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Folly Men Power
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government
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
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
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Cooking Material Publish Two
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
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Artist Book Fiction Reason
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Pages Want Writing
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Disease Views Years
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Decision Faces Government
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Humanity Print
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Cost Pay War

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

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