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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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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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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We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.
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In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
