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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein

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 is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself
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
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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 better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
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
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
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
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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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