Barbara Tuchman Quotes - Page 6

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• bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Errors, Yesterday, Forever

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.358, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsible, Forgiven, Position

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.45, Random House

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• 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.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Records, Facts, Disaster

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.18, Random House

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