Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
Yannick Noah
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
Kevin Bales
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This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
Freya Stark
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
William Shatner
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
David Biespiel
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
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On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.
Ray Mabus
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
