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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

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Confronted Government Menace Smash
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
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
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
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
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Country Men Opponent Smart
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
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Dying Sunset World
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Female Males Sin

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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