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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Gertrude Stein

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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