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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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Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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Ideology
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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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Truth
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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Other Quotes from
Astrology
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About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. – Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.

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Astrology

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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Astrology

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. – Benjamin Stillingfleet

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Astrology

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. – Christopher Marlowe

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Astrology

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Truth Will Set U Free is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individuals inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination. – Corey Hart

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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. – David Attenborough

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Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – German Proverb

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If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! – Hannah Whithall Smith

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