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Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it." --
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discipleship
group-think
ideology
party
politics
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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discipleship
identity
nationalism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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9086e13
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The scene is France. The theater is the world.
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evangelism
testimony
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
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manners
statesmanship
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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257c774
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If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
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openness
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.
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statesmanship
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation."
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thought-life
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
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distraction
peer-pressure
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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education
heritage
vision
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
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culture
depravity
perspective
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
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democracy
manipulation
materialism
perspective
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
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manipulation
popularity
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
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disillusionment
idealism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
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conventional-wisdom
heritage
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease."
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elitism
idolatry
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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c329b8b
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Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
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assumptions
loneliness
self-indulgence
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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378488e
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Everything interested him and everything excited him.
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communication
curiosity
education
leadership
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: "Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest."
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory."
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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bacc0f9
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Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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4874eba
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When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.
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rationalization
superstition
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Although 1870 proved the corollary of the theory and practice of terror, that it deepens antagonism, stimulates resistance, and ends by lengthening war, the Germans remained wedded to it.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
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culture
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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44709be
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The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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insularity
prejudice
pride
racism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Because life was collective, it was intensely sociable and dependent on etiquette, hence the emphasis on courteous conduct and clean fingernails.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus--in short, mad.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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The amount the rich could squander on occasions like these in a period of repeated disasters appears inexplicable, not so much with regard to motive as with regard to means.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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In a long and fiercely argued process, against the strenuous resistance of the peers, he ordered the Sire de Coucy to stand trial. Enguerrand IV was convicted, and although the King intended a death sentence, he was persuaded by the peers to forgo it. Enguerrand was sentenced to pay a fine of 12,000 livres, to be used partly to endow masses in perpetuity for the souls of the men he had hanged, and partly to be sent to Acre to aid in the def..
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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According to then current laws of war, the besieged could make terms if they surrendered, but not if they forced a siege to its bitter end, so presumably Charles felt no compunctions.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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In the same five years three new colleges were founded at Cambridge--Trinity, Corpus Christi, and Clare--although love of learning, like love in marriage, was not always the motive. Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Charles's old ally Don Enrique, King of Castile, also died before taking sides, and his son, Juan I, though heavily pressed by Charles V to support Clement, preferred to maintain "neutrality," saying that, while faithful to the French alliance, he could not go against the conscience of his subjects. Common people, nobility, clerics, learned men, he wrote, were all Urbanist. "What government, O wise prince," he pointedly inquired of Charles,..
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Smite a villein and he will bless you; bless a villein and he will smite you.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit." Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world."
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out--to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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A regular method was the levy for a crusade, which allowed ecclesiastical income within each country to be taxed by its king, who soon came to regard it as a right.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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the Pastoureaux spread the fear of insurrection that freezes the blood of the privileged in any era when the mob appears. Excommunicated by Pope John XXII, they were finally suppressed when he forbade anyone to provision them on pain of death and sanctioned the use of force against them. That was sufficient, and the Pastoureaux ended like every outbreak of the poor sooner or later in the Middle Ages, with corpses hanging from the trees.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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The clergy were to pray for all men, the knight to fight for them, and the commoner to work that all might eat.
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Barbara W. Tuchman |