The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
BARBARA TUCHMANWhile husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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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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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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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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