Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert
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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
Zadie Smith
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The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
Confucius
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Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
Cary Grant
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
Orhan Pamuk
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
Maajid Nawaz
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My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
Michael Stipe
R.E.M.
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Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years
Kami Garcia
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You can't always get what you want.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.
Chogyam Trungpa
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First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.
William S. Cohen
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Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
Paul Stamets
