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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. ↗

— William Howard Stein

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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L.A., so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

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One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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