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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara Tuchman

Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
War
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Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

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War

I have not yet begun to fight! – John Paul Jones

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War

What is more immoral than war? – Marquis de Sade

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War

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. – Otto Von Bismark

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright

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Experience

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times…More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really arent. – Al Bauman

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Results

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship. – Yulia Tymoshenko

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God may be subtle, but he isnt plain mean. – Albert Einstein

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