Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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
John Lilly
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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.
Isaac Newton
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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.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Sigmund Freud
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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.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
William E. Simon
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Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
Mark Steyn
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
Keith Olbermann
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
