Quote by Rebecca West
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say a

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – 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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History
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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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Astrology
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. – Rebecca West

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Even now I cant trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid. – Clara Bow

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Trust

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, thats being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. – Cornel West

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Trust

Trust in yourself. – Claudia Black

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Trust

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are youre probably going to invest in somebody whos going to deceive you. Ive been conned a couple of times, but now Im a little more savvy. – Maggie Gyllenhaal

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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. – William Henry Beveridge

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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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