Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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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I wish that I was where I am.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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