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Barbara Tuchman

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Historical History Peace
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
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Development Facts Tragedy
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Breaking Down Gaps Real
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Female Males Sin
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
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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Conflict Differences Planets
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
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Despair Light Past
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
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Dying Sunset World
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Effort Interesting People
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Attention Object Reader
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Satisfying Sentences Writing
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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Heels Jackals War
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Science Sea Teacher

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