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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
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 creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
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
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
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
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
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
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
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

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

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