Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.
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When mothers and fathers are supportive or each other, it makes each of their paternal jobs infinitely easier. And parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence reveal as much, if not more, to a child about romantic love as anything the mother or father might say.
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But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.
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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.
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But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
