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Barbara Tuchman

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Country Men Opponent Smart
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Pages Want Writing
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Artist Book Fiction Reason
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Errors Forever Yesterday
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
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
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Military Peace War
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Discard Irrelevant Matters
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.
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Folly Men Power
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
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.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Fighting History Police
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
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Authority Common Should
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy

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