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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... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
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A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
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I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
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God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
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Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
