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 free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
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In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
