When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Quotes from A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman
1912–1989 United States
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.
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Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Tuchman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.