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Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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Poison Running War
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
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
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
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
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
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Dying Sunset World
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
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Compromise Power Weakness
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
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose

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