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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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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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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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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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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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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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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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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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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
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Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
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Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
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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.
