Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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I'm a really bad twerker - I still haven't figured out how to do it. I actually hurt my back one day. I woke up the next morning, and my back was completely tweaked out... from twerking.
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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
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I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.
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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
