Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
