Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
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It's going to be a big topic of discussion.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
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In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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This show [Jessica Jones] was exploring the aftermath, and that is unique. You're sitting there going, "I know what happens. This is the aftermath." You watch her daily life and how she dealt with people, like new prospects for love or friends that were close to her, but she didn't know if she could trust them or if they were enemies.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.
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If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
