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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

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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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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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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War
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A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. – Charles Schumer

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War

I remember an article, I cant recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. – Claude Chabrol

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War

War is fear cloaked in courage. – William Westmoreland

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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. – Phyllis Schlafly

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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. – H. L. Mencken

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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

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I need more raw experience. Ive read and watched a lot of things, but I havent done a lot of things. – Marc Andreessen

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