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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.

Barbara Tuchman

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
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
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Fighting History Police
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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History Past Tree
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Evoke Moments Speech
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
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
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
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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Country Money More Prevail Property
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
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

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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