Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We were descended from royalty.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
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Think of God oftener than you breathe.
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When you have county roads like this that are coming a lot more congested, people just don't expect cars to meet you at intersections.
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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
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Out would come another star, winking at me over the white shoulder of the Rothorn. Round me stood the mountains, exquisite examples of peace— A world above man’s head, to let him see How boundless might his soul’s horizons be— and here was I, minding because guests went into their bedrooms and told each other I had five children. Well, so I had. Nothing could possibly be more true. How vast, yet of what clear transparency— and minding because they said I was forty, which I certainly would be some day, if I went on living at the rate I was doing. How it were good to abide there and be free— The fact was, I reflected, my eyes on the glittering slopes of the Weisshorn, we were all too close together, and my guests, being of one family, only made this closeness worse. The remedy—it burst upon me suddenly in a flash,—was not to waste my serenity vainly longing for the guests I had to go, but to invite yet more of them. Unrelated ones.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
