Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I love TV. I love the stability of it.
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It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
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Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
