“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
— Gertrude Stein
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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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“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”
— Gertrude Stein
Author: Gertrude Stein
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
— Gertrude Stein
Author: Gertrude Stein
Category: peace
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“It is very easy to love alone.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
— Gertrude Stein
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