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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.

Barbara Tuchman

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Historical History Peace
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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People Reform relief
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
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
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
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Country Men Opponent Smart
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Contempt Country Law States United
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print

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