Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchmanwas an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth30 January 1912
CountryUnited States of America
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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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.
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Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
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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.