Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
Jack Benny
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Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, 'That were to consider it too curiously.'
Randall Jarrell
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
Karen Blixen
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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.
D. H. Lawrence
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On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
Marcus Aurelius
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I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.
Alex Newell
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Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Charles Vest
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
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West Virginia clearly wanted it more. They worked harder, and played with a great deal of heart and determination.
C. Vivian Stringer
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe