Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
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Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
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Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
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We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
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I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
