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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.

Gertrude Stein

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
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
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
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
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
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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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
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 do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
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
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True

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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