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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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
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If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
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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.
