Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Dead, with my eyes wide open, I began a new life without a body. I had nothing to fear.
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It was really phenomenal Warren Buffett donation. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.
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It’s your move, boy. I’ll follow you, boy. And I ain’t gonna lead, I’m a lady like that. So I’m gonna keep looking at you like I dare ya.
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First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
