Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
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I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
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Modern morality is all about perception.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
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Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
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Perfection can be a fetish.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
