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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman foi uma escritora e historiadora autodidata estadunidense. Ficou conhecida pelo livro The Guns of August , uma história do prelúdio do primeiro mês da Primeira Guerra Mundial que lhe garantiu o Prémio Pulitzer de Não Ficção Geral. Ela venceu o Pulitzer novamente por Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, uma biografia do General Joseph Stilwell. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Janeiro 1912 – 6. Fevereiro 1989  •  Outros nomes باربارا تاکمن
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Barbara Tuchman: Frases em inglês

“When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 202

“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 389

“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 594

“Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. xix

“When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, “As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.””

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 239

“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 534

“The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 173

“Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 213

“To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 399

“What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 455

“Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 554

“Survivors of the plague, finding themselves neither destroyed nor improved, could discover no Divine purpose in the pain they had suffered. God’s purposes were usually mysterious, but this scourge had been too terrible to be accepted without questioning. If a disaster of such magnitude, the most lethal ever known, was a mere wanton act of God or perhaps not God’s work at all, then the absolutes of a fixed order were loosed from their moorings. Minds that opened to admit these questions could never again be shut. Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 123

“For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 327

“Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, “no epoch was more naturally mad.””

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 332

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold"”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livro A Distant Mirror

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Fonte: A Distant Mirror (1978)