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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Gertrude Stein

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
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
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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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Depend Different Oneself See 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
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
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
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner

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