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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. - Barbara W. Tuchman
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