Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
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I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
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'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
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For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
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In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
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Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
