Rebecca West's Quote - It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early st

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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early st

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – 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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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. – Carter G. Woodson

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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins

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Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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