Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.
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Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.
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It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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Man, the creator of machines, is greater than the means of production. Man did not emerge from the process of evolution with the hammer, but with a distinctive brain. The human brain, itself a kind of “means of production” is more powerful than the most powerful machine.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
