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Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

Barbara Tuchman

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
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
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Cost Pay War
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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Demand Discipline Order
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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Government Periods Pursuit
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Banker Companion Erect Lighthouse Magician Sea Teacher
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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking

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