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Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Barbara Tuchman

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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History Past Tree
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
Completeness is rare in history.
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Completeness History Rare
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
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Capitalist Economy Sin Usury
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
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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Accepting Calm Supplies
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Battle Military Mind
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Historical History Peace
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
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
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Argument Desire Found
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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Husband Men Stories
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

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