Barbara Tuchman

" 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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Barbara Tuchman
Old , Past , Being , Friend
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" Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. "
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Nothing
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" No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. "
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Government , Decision
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" For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. "
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Life
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" 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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Glory , War , Sea
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" 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. "
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Power , World , Influence , Old , Fascism
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" Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. "
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Mind , Nothing , Military
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" Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. "
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Discipline
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" 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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Barbara Tuchman
Old , Past , Being , Friend
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" 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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History , Thought , Books , Civilization , Science , Literature , Dumb
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" Books are humanity in print. "
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Books , Humanity
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" War is the unfolding of miscalculations. "
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War
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" Honor wears different coats to different eyes. "
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Honor , Eyes
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Barbara Tuchman
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30-01-1912 06-02-1989 Historian, Author citation
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