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When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

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Barbara Tuchman

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 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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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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Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

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