Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
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History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
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I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
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The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
