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BARBARA TUCHMANIf I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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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.
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