Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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As a coach, you're never satisfied. But the guys are working hard. We've had more competitive at-bats lately, more competitive games. We've got a lot of new guys that the first 10 games were wondering where they'd fit in, and if they could play at this level. They're starting to feel more comfortable with themselves. We'll get better.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
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I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
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You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.
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I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.
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The customer is the final inspector.
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There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
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No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.
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Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. You will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that faith.
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You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
