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One Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
- To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
- An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
- 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…
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through…
- 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…
- Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King…
- To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below…
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle