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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You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
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I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.
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One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
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Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
