Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner
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I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
Warwick Davis
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
Larry Fitzgerald
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.
Mark Kurlansky
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.
Enos Mills
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
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Love is in essence subversive.
Andreï Makine
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
