Complicated Quote by Barbara Tuchman

“The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.” quote by Barbara Tuchman — Download Open image

“The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.”

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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

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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…

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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical…

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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's…

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The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

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We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they…

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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

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