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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
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
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Closing Doors Library
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
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Cause Command Thinking
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Cards House Leaving
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
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
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Complicated Question Reality Suppose
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
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Confronted Government Menace Smash
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
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Conducting Finished Research
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Decision Faces Government
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

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