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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

~Barbara Tuchman

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Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 30th, 1912

Died: February 6th, 1989

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