Gertrude Stein

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• The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

  Paris France (1940), p. 107

  • Family

• War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

  Wars I Have Seen (1945)

  • War & Peace

• America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

  An American and France (1936)

  • America

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy