Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
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I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
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The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
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It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.
