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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Battles
Barbara Tuchman

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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Barbara Tuchman

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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Originality
Barbara Tuchman

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun