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Completeness is rare in history.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Humanity
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Female Males Sin
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Anxiety Christian Giving
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.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
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Moral Reluctance Seems
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Revolution Successful Tyrants
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Humanity Print
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Heels Jackals War
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Artist Book Fiction Reason
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Government Periods Pursuit
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Despair Light Past
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Demand Discipline Order
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader

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