Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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False modesty is better than none.
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After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
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Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
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Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.
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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
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Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.
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The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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I'm not impressed by your performance.
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So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.
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Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
