Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
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It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
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Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.
