Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
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Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκηποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα
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I have contact with no one involved in the trial.
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Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame.
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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
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When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
