Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
Harry Belafonte
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
Yossi Sarid
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
Wassily Kandinsky
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
Ed Rendell
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Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.
Natalie Maines
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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
Alyssa Milano
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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
R. C. Sproul
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I'm really struck by the spirit and determination by the volunteers from the state of Alabama, ... astonishing adversity.
Jack Straw
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
Ziggy Marley
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There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.
Barbara Coloroso
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Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.
Evan Sayet
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
T. S. Eliot
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A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
