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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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – 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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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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Nobody is starving on the streets. Weve always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the governments responsibility. – Benjamin Carson

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Government

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. – John Locke

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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. – James Dyson

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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. – Manolo Blahnik

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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. – Roger Ebert

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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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