The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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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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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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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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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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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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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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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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Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
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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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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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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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Human behavior is timeless.
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