Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.
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As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
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Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
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Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
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There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
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Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
