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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Barbara Tuchman

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
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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Different Eye Honor
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
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Female Males 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
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Cost Pay War
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth.
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Giving Men Struggle
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Military Peace War

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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