audience

book

revolution

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

journalist

race / ethnicity

American Jews

historian

biographer

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

The audience is the barometer of the truth. Barbara Streisand

is the carrier of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

, when successful, always puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

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Barbara W. Tuchman