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In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

Barbara Tuchman's Popular Quotes

Books are humanity in print.

- Barbara Tuchman

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to…

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In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, …

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What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

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The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

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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 i…

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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.

- Barbara Tuchman