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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

Barbara Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
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
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Book Order Original Thought
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all the passions.” Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise.
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Exercise Passion Successful
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
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Moral Reluctance Seems
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective

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