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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are

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

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History
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Experience
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

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Truth

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, its true. – Bill Gates

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Truth

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. – Swami Vivekananda

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Truth

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, Im looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling. – Robert M. Pirsig

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Truth

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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. – Ambrose Bierce

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The spiral in a snails shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and its also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. Its the same ratio that youll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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