Quote by Rebecca West
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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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – 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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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don’t always hiss or muck up the day, each day. – Anne Sexton

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow. – Alexander Pope

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The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time…. – Carl Jung

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Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. – Shana Alexander

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