"I am I because my little dog knows me."

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Source : Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press

Gertrude Stein

#Friendship Quotes #Dog Quotes #Littles Quotes

“As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.”
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
“The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.”

Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1972.
“Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.”
“The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.”
“Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.”
“We don't break our captains. We kill them.”
“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

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