Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.
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[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
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Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.
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We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.
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A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...
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After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
