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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.

Barbara Tuchman

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Decision Faces Government
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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Despair Light Past
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
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
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.
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Essentials Sound Writing
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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
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
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Action Appetite Power
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Easier Faces Government

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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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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