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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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

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History
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Barbara 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 Tuchman

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Diplomacy
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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History

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock

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History

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History

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Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. – Conrad Black

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That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics. – Gordon Gould

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I am 73 years old. Ive seen everything. Ive met the kings, the queens, the presidents, Ive been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace. – Ariel Sharon

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