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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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