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

Barbara Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.
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Humanity Ideas Years
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
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
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Artist Book Fiction Reason
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
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
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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Power Strong Thinking
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Library Muse Shelter
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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Knighthood Love War

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

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