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Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
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
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
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
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
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
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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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
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

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