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

Barbara Tuchman

The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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Country Money More Prevail Property
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
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
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Contempt Country Law States United
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Communication Quality
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Age Bad Time Needs

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