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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today…. – Linda Goodman

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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an “intellectual” – find out how he feels about astrology. – Robert A. Heinlein

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A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. – Jeremy Taylor

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