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To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Pages Want 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
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Disease Views Years
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Cost Pay War
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
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
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 Science Sea Teacher
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
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Hindsight Midst War
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Country Men Opponent Smart
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
Human behavior is timeless.
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Behavior Human Timeless
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Library Muse Shelter

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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