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   Kent Peterson on July 30, 2020 at 9:41 am

   I like this one a lot.

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   Bill M on August 1, 2020 at 5:36 pm

   Sometimes we spend our lives looking for treasure not realizing we are digging our own hole, and we never learn.

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   The Philosophy Teacher on August 1, 2020 at 7:01 pm

   Well, in sussing this one out I can't forget that you're from Oakland. And, besides Sal Bando, we all know one thing about Oakland–that there is no there there.

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   Richard P on August 1, 2020 at 7:06 pm

   Very true. Sometimes the boy never becomes a man.

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   Richard P on August 1, 2020 at 7:08 pm

   Is it a coincidence that I ended up studying a philosopher whose main concept is "being-there"? But seriously, Gertrude Stein's line is always taken out of context—she was referring to where her old house in Oakland used to be, not to the city itself, which has character galore.

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