Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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Our story of evolution ended with a stirring in the brain-organ of the latest of Nature's experiments; but that stirring of consciousness transmutes the whole story and gives meaning to its symbolism. Symbolically it is the end, but looking behind the symbolism it is the beginning.
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I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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Career politicians like Marco Rubio worry more about keeping the job than doing the job and are constantly looking for their next political promotion.
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Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.
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Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
