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Barbara Tuchman Inspirational Quotes (64)

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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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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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Governments do not like to face radical remedies it is easier to let politics predominate.
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One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
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I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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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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No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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