Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
