Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'
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This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
