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.
GERTRUDE STEINBut 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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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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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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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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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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