#he

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind. ↗

— Ben Stein

#gone #gone with the wind #knew #place #planet

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#efficient #find #i #possible #pupil

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bad news #ban #because #build #capital

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

#deals #foreigner #friendly #how #just

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

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#being #does #doing #drunk #father

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #depressing #doubt #fathering #fathers

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#alone #beings #human #human beings #like

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beginning #garden #grows #in the beginning #little

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot