Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
Oscar de la Renta
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
Said Nursi
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
Rachel Weisz
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
Victoria Jackson
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
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This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
Ted Deutch
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
Dan Farmer
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
Samina Baig
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There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
Jim Ratcliffe
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What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.
Bill Engvall
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One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.
H. L. Mencken
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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
Peter Dawson
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When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!
Mariacarla Boscono
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe