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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein

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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Change Money Yourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
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
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
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
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
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing

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