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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.

Gertrude Stein

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
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
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
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
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
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
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy

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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