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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

Barbara Tuchman

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
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
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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Barbarians Loss Thinking
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Military Peace War
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
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
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
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
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Country Men Opponent Smart

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