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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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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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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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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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The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world. – Thomas Aquinas

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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish… – Robert G. Ingersoll

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