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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?

Barbara Tuchman

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs
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.
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Book Communication Quality
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
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Art Exercise Imagination
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Military Peace War
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.
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Disaster Facts Records
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
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.
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Hero Kings Knowing
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Easier Faces Government
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
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 Reading Stupid
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
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
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Breaking Down Gaps Real

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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