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we are all made of star stuff



or as I like to say to encourage myself that small things matter

"Stars are made of quarks"



Star stuff sounds like some German element.


Exactly what I thought! I checked with google translate.

star stuff = sternzeug. stern stoff = star fabric


Stoff had more than one translation into English. One is cloth. Another refers to substances. Eg hydrogen is called Wasserstoff in German: water-stuff


See “waterstuff” in the Uncleftish Beholding:

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beh...


yet we all want to be




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