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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.

Barbara Tuchman

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
Books are humanity in print.
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Book Humanity Print
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
Completeness is rare in history.
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Completeness History Rare
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Book Reading Stupid
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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Belief Century Church
Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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Book Civilization Humanity
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Interesting Prevention War
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Book Science Sea Teacher
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
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Comfort Military Mind
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Church Numbers Self
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
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
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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History Sea War

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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