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Barbara Tuchman quotes: No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next. To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention. The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Human behavior is timeless. Human behavior is timeless.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability. Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Above all, discard the irrelevant. Above all, discard the irrelevant.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate. Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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. 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: In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law. In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication. To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated. Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible. Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish. One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive. The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule. When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians ... The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians ...
Barbara Tuchman quotes: An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: 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. 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.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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. 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 fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. 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.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: In the midst of events there is no perspective. In the midst of events there is no perspective.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Completeness is rare in history ... Completeness is rare in history ...
Barbara Tuchman quotes: I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The power to command frequently causes failure to think. The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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. 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: What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ... More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ...
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs. Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
Barbara Tuchman quotes: Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war. Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

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