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Facts about Barbara Tuchman SummaryBarbara Tuchman was a famous Historian from USA, who lived between January 30, 1912 and February 6, 1989.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Barbara, under the main topic War.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Joe Namath, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Vince Lombardi, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Arthur Lydiard, Robert Indiana, Whitfield Diffie, Phyllis Diller, Twyla Tharp Famous quotes by Barbara Tuchman (17)   "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"
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost"
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard"
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in"
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism"
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision"
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline"
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