Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
