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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Gertrude Stein

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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question 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
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
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
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
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
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
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing 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
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself

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