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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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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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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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Pleasure
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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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I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar

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History

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History

Mans naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. – Auguste Rodin

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History

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. – Chinese Proverb

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. – Peter F. Drucker

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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. – Norman Cousins

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