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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

Barbara Tuchman

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
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Church Devil Women
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
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Artist Book Fiction Reason
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
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
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
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Folly Men Power
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
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
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

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