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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It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
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There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
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Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born.
