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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein

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
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
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
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 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
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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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Depend Different Oneself See Time
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue

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