Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.
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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.
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Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.
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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
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I've never in my life had a cavity. Not one!
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For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
