To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, un… - Barbara W. Tuchman

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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an award-winning American historian and author.

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Whatever the fiasco, aplomb is unbroken. Mistakes, failures, stupidities and other causes of disaster mysteriously vanish. Disasters are recorded with care and pride and become transmuted into things of beauty. Official histories record every move in monumental and infinite detail but the details serve to obscure.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

on the Bengal Famine Inquiry Commission 1943 in Stevenson, Richard. Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943. United States: iUniverse, 2005.

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. - Barbara W. Tuchman

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