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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
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
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all the passions.” Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise.
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Exercise Passion Successful
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Eradicable Matter Sex Sin
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Book Order Original Thought
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
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
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 Science Sea Teacher
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.
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Essentials Sound Writing
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
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Belief Friendship Roots
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

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