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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

Gertrude Stein

You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
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
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
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
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
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.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work

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