Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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