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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Barbara Tuchman

Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
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Folly Men Power
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Cards House Leaving
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
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Hard Stories Telephone Work
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Compromise Power Weakness
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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Authority Common Should
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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History Past Tree
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
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Capitalist Economy Sin Usury
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
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
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

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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