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That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man’s occasional triumphs over medicine.
– Barbara W Tuchman

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  2. These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle – Barbara W Tuchman
  3. Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – Barbara W Tuchman
  4. Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government. – Barbara W Tuchman
  5. Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? – Barbara W Tuchman
  6. The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. – Voltaire
  7. Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
  8. I don’t mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
  9. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
  10. I don’t mind the term functional medicine — I suppose it’s better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
  11. Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered. – BR Ambedkar
  12. Books are humanity in print. – Barbara W Tuchman
  13. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air – and nothing did. – Barbara Tuchman
  14. Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings – Barbara W Tuchman
  15. House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. – Barbara W Tuchman
  16. Diplomacy’s primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. – Barbara W Tuchman
  17. A minister’s (cabinet member’s) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. – Barbara W Tuchman
  18. Duty was not untinged by ambition. – Barbara W Tuchman
  19. Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. – Barbara W Tuchman
  20. The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke – Barbara W Tuchman
  21. He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. – Barbara W Tuchman
  22. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara W Tuchman
  23. How much does a man’s effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII – Barbara W Tuchman
  24. No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society. – Barbara W Tuchman
  25. Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. – Barbara W Tuchman
  26. Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. – Barbara W Tuchman
  27. The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. – Barbara W Tuchman
  28. All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. – Barbara W Tuchman
  29. Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions. – Barbara W Tuchman
  30. Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. – Barbara W Tuchman
  31. Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. – Barbara W Tuchman
  32. Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher – Barbara W Tuchman
  33. He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. – Barbara W Tuchman
  34. England’s traditional tolerance was outraged at last. – Barbara W Tuchman
  35. The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to. – Barbara W Tuchman
  36. He believed that rank without power was a sham. – Barbara W Tuchman
  37. The affair made men feel larger than life. – Barbara W Tuchman
  38. One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. – Barbara W Tuchman
  39. The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists. – Barbara W Tuchman
  40. Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous. – Barbara W Tuchman

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