Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
