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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures

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

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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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Trust
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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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Women
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A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. – Joseph Story

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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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Knowledge

A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian – and at once the world becomes explicable. – H. L. Mencken

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Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. – Terrence Howard

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Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace. – Marcus Aurelius

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Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what cant be done and why. Then do it. – Robert A. Heinlein

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