For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
BARBARA TUCHMANNo female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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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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in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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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.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Completeness is rare in history.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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