Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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We are always the same age inside.
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