Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.
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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
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Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.
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Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.
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I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.
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I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.
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What makes everything one is the style.
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I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
