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The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Barbara Tuchman

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
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Europe War World
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.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
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Eyebrows Female Habit
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Mean Power Secret
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
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
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
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
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
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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Despair Light Past
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose

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