Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
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My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
