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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
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
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Library Muse Shelter
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
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
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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History Sea War
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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Danger Ingredients Missing
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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Knighthood Love War
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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Power Strong Thinking
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
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
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

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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