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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You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
