#temporary

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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I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

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Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#been #certain #contemporary #feminism #issues

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#current #current events #events #good #i

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. ↗

— Norm Dicks

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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If you want to experiment, do something temporary. ↗

— Andy Garcia

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