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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

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
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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Power Strong Thinking
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Library Muse Shelter
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Book Civilization Literature History
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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Moral Reluctance Seems
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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Book Cooking Material Publish Two
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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History People Poetry
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Always Condition Writer Writing
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
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Country Small Space Urgent World
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
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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Exaggeration Reality Satire
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

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