Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.
~ Lao Zi
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
~ Gertrude Stein
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe.
~ Lewis Mumford
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A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
~ Gertrude Stein
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If you fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when her work is done, her aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”
~ Lao Zi
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
~ Gertrude Stein
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