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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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
