Quote by Rebecca West
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

Other quotes by Rebecca West

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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communication
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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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Intelligence
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Knowledge
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Its much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that theyre ill-equipped to solve their problems. – John Hawkes

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Knowledge

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi

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Knowledge

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Knowledge

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge

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Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. Hes at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while hes under suspension. This is not America. – Curt Weldon

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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now. – Fiona Apple

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alone