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Quote by Gertrude Stein
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to s

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. – Gertrude Stein

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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. – Gertrude Stein

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Family
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein

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War
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – Gertrude Stein

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Women
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Death is a distant rumor to the young. – Andrew A. Rooney

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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me. – A. N. Wilson

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The U.S. couldnt even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. Theyll be killing each other again in less than a year. Im sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. – Bill Gates

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Death doesnt frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. – Jeanne Calment

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. – Antonin Artaud

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I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. – James Joyce

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People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. – Rick Wakeman

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