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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

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
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
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Cards House Leaving
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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Attention Men Untrustworthy
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Giving Men Struggle
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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Government Periods Pursuit
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Eradicable Matter Sex Sin
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Pages Want Writing
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
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Capitalist Economy Sin Usury
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
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech

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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