Of the two classes of Prussian officer, the bull-necked and the wasp-waisted, he belonged to the second. Monocled and effete in appearance, cold and distant in manner, he concentrated with such single-mindedness on his profession that when an aide, at the end of an all-night staff ride in East Prussia, pointed out to him the beauty of the river Pregel sparkling in the rising sun, the General gave a brief, hard look and replied, 'An unimportant obstacle.
Barbara W. TuchmanHuman beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
Barbara W. TuchmanIf there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.
Barbara W. TuchmanVainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.
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Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
Barbara W. TuchmanThe fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara W. TuchmanTags: military wwi militarism
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.
Barbara W. TuchmanHuman beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.
Barbara W. TuchmanTags: planning danger emotion anxiety
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