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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
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
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
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Eradicable Matter Sex Sin
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.
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Hero Kings Knowing
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.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males Sin
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all the passions.” Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise.
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Exercise Passion Successful
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Mean Power Secret

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.

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