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.
Brown Campbell
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False modesty is better than none.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
Christina Aguilera
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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.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.
Quentin L. Cook
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
William Golding
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
Paul Krugman
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
Cato the Younger
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When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.
Epictetus
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We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others.
Brennan Manning
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I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.
Elizabeth Scott
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe