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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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