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Barbara Tuchman Quotes about Purpose

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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Barbara Tuchman
Victory, Fasting, Purpose
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.36, Random House

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Barbara Tuchman
Technology, Purpose, Use
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.426, Random House

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