Quote by Barbara Tuchman
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than

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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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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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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We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. – Jeff Miller

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Government

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And thats just not what the founders intended. – Barack Obama

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Government

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – Andrew Jackson

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Government

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. – Paul Ryan

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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation. – Zebulon Pike

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Peace

Im learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but thats how it is. Im really learning to function out there and in such a way that I dont need to drink. – Dana Plato

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Learning

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mamas boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. – Ayelet Waldman

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Nature

Real programmers dont work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am its because they were up all night. – Tom Van Vleck