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Quote by Rebecca West
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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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Truth

I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean

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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

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Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. – Jimmy Wales

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles

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