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Barbara Tuchman

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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Earth Ideas Medieval
The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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Unity War Years
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
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Fighting History Police
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others – only to lose it over themselves.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Folly Men Power
Of all the ills that our poor … society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
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Absence Confusion Heirs
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Knighthood Love War
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
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Age Conflict Problem
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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Cooking Material Publish Two
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Humanity
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Closing Doors Library
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Demand Discipline Order
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
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
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

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