Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters of our Heavenly Father,’ how would women be regarded and treated?
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I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.
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The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
