Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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I often think how lucky we were with 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
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I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
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Nobody had many catches. There's no doubt, we gotta get him some catches.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
