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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I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.
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I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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In Islam there is not much room for anything else but Islam.
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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.
