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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets. - Gertrude Stein
Attribution: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. The Radcliffe Manuscripts, Form and Intelligibility, ed. by Rosalind S. Miller, Exposition Press (1949). Written as an undergraduate composition 1894.

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