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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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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. – Rebecca West

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. – 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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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. – James Lovelock

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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky

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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. – Sidney Sheldon

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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible — or even sinful — that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! – Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. – Anthony Trollope

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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. – Leslie Jamison

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