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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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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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Music
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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mom
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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All men by nature desire knowledge. – Aristotle

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Knowledge

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men. – Proverb

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Knowledge

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman

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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say him rather than her. Maybe its because of my generation, but I dont like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. – Julia Child

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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. – J. Donald Walters

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