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

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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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We are not makers of history. We are made by history. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. – Eddie Bernice Johnson

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. – Alexis Carrel

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. – Winston Churchill

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