Quote by Barbara Tuchman
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

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 Tuchman

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Government
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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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History
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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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Food
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My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company. – Mario Batali

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Food

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and – the most virulent cause of all – the absence of freedom. – Shimon Peres

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Food

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. – David Suzuki

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Food

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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Food

Random Quotes

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. – Hindustani Proverb

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Self

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Dreams

But I like going to church. If youve been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think its important that part of the kids education is knowing about the Bible. – Jack Dee

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Education

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, its got to be funny enough to warrant it. You cant just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – its got to be funny. – Betty White

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funny