. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embrace joy and spontaneity, regardless of judgment.
This quote by Gertrude Stein encourages individuals to let go of inhibitions and embrace the joy of dancing, suggesting that whether one chooses to dance or not, they will be judged. Therefore, one might as well indulge in the act of dancing, which symbolizes freedom, happiness, and self-expression.
Themes
DanceHappinessFreedomSelf-ExpressionJoy
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used during a motivational speech about embracing life.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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