"Before a war military science seems a real……" — Rebecca West
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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More Astrology Quotes
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one of 193 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only…
— Jonathan Swift
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any…
— Thomas Huxley
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
— Mason Cooley
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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