Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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I'm loving the idea of having a baby
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Again and again the imaginary plan on which one attempts to build up that order breaks down and then we must try another. This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable. The pure rationalist has no place here.
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'I don’t hold with prophets,' said Alvin. 'Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.'
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Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
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I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
