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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

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Mean Power Secret
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 humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Eyebrows Female Habit
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
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
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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Art Church Little
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
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Attention Object Reader
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
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Confronted Government Menace Smash

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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