Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
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There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
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American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.
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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
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Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.
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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
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When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.
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If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
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“Without accurate intelligence, no strategy could be effective.”
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...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
