This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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