Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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Thus the Koran, in this matter of slavery, is the enemy of mankind ... While the prescriptions by the Prophet regarding the just and humane treatment of slaves contained in the Koran are praiseworthy, there is nothing whatever in Islam that lends support to the abolition of this curse. (p. 228)
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The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.
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How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
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The Refusal of the Keys: it seemed like something from mythology, from medieval legend.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
