Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I was born with an evil face.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Miracles will have their claimersMore will bow to RomeHe and she are in the houseBut there's only me at home. - Anagram (For Mongo) (1989)
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For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
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You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
