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"The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists."
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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
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"Not all good things come from good people."
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"MamA believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it."
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"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us."
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"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."
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"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."
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"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."
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"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
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"I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys."
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"It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called "mass MURDER" and not "mass MANSLAUGHTER."
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Explore more 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."
History
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
Governance
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."
Bravery
"Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher."
War
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."
Honor
"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
Politics
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."
Motivation
"He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny."
Reform
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