Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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They need a new community on higher ground.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground.
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It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.
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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.
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I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
