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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

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
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
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
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
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
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
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
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
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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 is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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