Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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8) History never repeats itself.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
