From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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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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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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