One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not … - Barbara Tuchman

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I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

Barbara Tuchman

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

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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. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

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Books are humanity in print.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

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