The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

—Gertrude Stein

About Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted...

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

—Gertrude Stein

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

—Gertrude Stein

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There are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

—Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

—Gertrude Stein

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Gertrude Stein

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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

—George W. Bush

America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

—George W. Bush

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

—George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused—preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

—George W. Bush

America is a young country with an old mentality.

—George Santayana

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