Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If I were a batter and thought the pitcher really tried to bean me, I'd be inclined to wait for him outside the park with a baseball bat.
Walter Johnson
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He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.
Louise Rennison
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Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
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To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
John McCrae
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.
Paul Auster
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Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?
Elena Ferrante
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
Bill Murray
