Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
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Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
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It is really just having more of them.
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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
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The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
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A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
