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One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Barbara Tuchman

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Firsts Garment Legitimacy
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Closing Doors Library
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Female Males Sin
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Art Christianity Ideas
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Different Eye Honor
Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Humanity Print
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Military Peace War
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Battle Military Mind
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

History People Poetry
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Power Strong Thinking
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Forgiven Position Responsible
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Unity War Years
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Effort Interesting People
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Complicated Question Reality Suppose
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Purpose Technology Use
To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Order Original Thought

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