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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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
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I can't believe I have an ex-fiancee.
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
