Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.
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We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
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No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.
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There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
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The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
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The truth, ... is that Microsoft has been a monopolist found by a federal judge to have undercut innovation and hence competition and consumer welfare.
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I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.
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Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
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We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
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My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
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Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.
