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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[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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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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Literature is the history of the soul.
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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
