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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. - Barba

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. – 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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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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If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? – Martin Scorsese

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I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food. – Robert Mondavi

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As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. – Julia Child

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I love food, I love eating. – Robin Gibb

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I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. Theres European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European. – Henning Mankell

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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. – Barbara Kruger

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape. – Julie Walters

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