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Quote by Barbara Tuchman
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so m

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

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Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. – Carlton J.H. Hayes

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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