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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history a

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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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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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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Truth
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

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Astrology
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If I didnt have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle. – Dan Rather

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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History
[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. – John Cameron

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Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos. – Chuck Zito

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