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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

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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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Rebecca West
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Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. – Rebecca West

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Birds
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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Knowledge
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Knowledge

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. – Stokely Carmichael

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Knowledge

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. – Irving Babbitt

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Knowledge

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Miscellaneous

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

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Im in politics. Im in government, so nothing surprises me. – Andrew Cuomo

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