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Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Human behavior is timeless (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Completeness is rare in history (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are the carriers of civilization........ Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library (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 They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In the midst of events there is no perspective (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few? (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Honor wears different coats to different eyes (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)
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs (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)
Woman [in the 14th century] was the church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the devil's decoy (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Above all, discard the irrelevant (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)
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)
War is the unfolding of miscalculations (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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