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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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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“You count,” he said softly. “That’s what it means, to not belong - it means that you count. It wouldn’t be bearable if you didn’t know it would end.
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I can absolutely tell you that the FSB are rigged up to collect as much compromising information against any target they consider to be valuable. So when Trump was there in Russia, would they have collected against him? I think the answer is yes.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
