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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
War
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
War

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. – Bob Schieffer

Category:
War

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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War

Theres many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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War

Random Quotes

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Future

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense – Eric Butterworth

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Sin

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James F. Cooper

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Happiness

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogies in the West Village, New York City, near my house. – Gail Simmons

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Sports