Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
BARBARA TUCHMANWhatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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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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No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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