Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief.
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One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
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If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
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We did out best to lose that one. The game was there for the taking and we blew it.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
