Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
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What's to gain by silence?
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Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.
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I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.
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My body feels pretty unbelievable.
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It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
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Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.
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The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.
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You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
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I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
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Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did.
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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.
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Surveys show that surveys never lie.
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I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
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There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
