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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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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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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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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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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Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
