Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.
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One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?
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I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
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One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
