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.
Patrick Lencioni
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith
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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.
John McEnroe
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Eddie Condon
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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.
Pablo Picasso
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
Artie Lange
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Bono U2
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I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.
Aaron Richard Bruno Awolnation
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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal
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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.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
Nate Holland
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Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
Richard M. Nixon
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe