Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
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I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
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Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".
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We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.
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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
