Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.
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I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.
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I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
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What i do in my personal time is about me. if other people dont agree, then it doesn't matter 'cos it's my opinion and that's what counts at the end of the day.
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I was very productive as a senator for my state.
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As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.
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I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best...my very best, I set you free
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I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything
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All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.
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For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.
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The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
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Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
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We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its descent, I find myself dreading the questions left unanswered by my childhood.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
