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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
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
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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