Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
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The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
