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Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Human behavior is timeless  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Books are the carriers of civilization........ Books are humanity in print  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Completeness is rare in history  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) More than a code of manners in war and love, chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Above all, discard the irrelevant  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) 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 Quotes) When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes) The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians  (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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