"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
-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.“
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology."
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
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"Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts."
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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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